The rise of wisdom moon
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Bibliographic Information
The rise of wisdom moon
（The Clay Sanskrit library, 52）
New York University Press, JJC Foundation, 2009
1st ed
- : cloth
- Other Title
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Prabodhacandrodaya
- Uniform Title
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Prabodhacandrodaya
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Note
Sanskrit texts with parallel English translations on facing pages
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna mishra's work led to its frequent translation into the vernaculars of both North and South India, and even Persian as well. Famed as providing the enduring model of the allegorical play for all subsequent Sanskrit literature, The Rise of Wisdom Moon offers a satirical account of the conquest of the holy city of Benares by Nescience, of the war of liberation waged by the forces of Intuition, and of the freedom of the Inner Man that then follows the rise of Wisdom. But at the outset, when Nescience still has the upper hand, with minions like Lord Lust, such developments seem unlikely.
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