1st Edition
The Ocean of Mirth Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times
By Jyotirmaya Sharma
Copyright 2020
96 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
96 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
96 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya. As a political satire, the volume finds significant resonances among contemporary questions of politics and society across the world, and examines the tension inherent in the clash of... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. A note on the text and translation 3. Names of characters in Hāsyārṇava in order of appearance 4. English translation of Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ 5. Sanskrit translation of Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ
Biography
Jyotirmaya Sharma is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. In 2015–16, he was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Between January and June 2012 he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, in 2012–13. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study, RFIEA, between 2013 and 2016. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.
