The Janakihara? A of Kumaradasa very rare 1967 Sri Lankan first edition

  

A of Kumaradasa - very rare 1967 Sri Lankanfirst edition. Publisher: government press Ceylon for the Sri Lanka Academyof letters - first edition September 1967. Godakumbura, with indexes, notes, tables and appendix byC. Sanskrit text with English translations.

Condition: overall good - small tears in pages 235 - 275page (it appears as if a sharp object penetrated the book) page edges are markedand slightly stained, dust jacket in poor condition previously repaired withSellotape slightly discoloured white binding and gilt lettering otherwise ingood condition binding is tight and pages are bright and clean with no foxingapparent. Janakiharana of Kumaradasa is the first Sanskrit Mahakavya, so far as the extant literature goes, to deal solely with the whole of theRamayana-story. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Societyof Great Britain and Ireland, 253-280. The history of this little-knownwork is remarkable.

Manuscript of ithas yet been discovered, and on the. Continent of India the only traces of itsexisteuce consist.

In the facts that afew of its verses are quoted in two. Sanskrit anthologies, the Qarngadharapaddhatiand tho. Subhasitavali, and in theAucityavicuracarcii of Ksemendra. Andthat the author is coupled with Kalidasa in a memorial.

Janaklharanam kartum Haghuvamce sthite sati. Kavih Kuinaradaeac ca lliivanac ca yadiksamah.

The Singhalese literature, however, has preserved to us. A Sanna orword-for-word gloss of tho first fourteen cantos.

And of the fifteenth in part, from which glossit has been. Found possible to piecetogether a text which cannot diverge. Very far from the original.

The first attemptat such a re. Construction was made by aSinghalese pandit for James. D'Ahyis, who, in his Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit. Pali, and Singhalese Literary Works ofCeylon, gives. 191-2, aspecimen of ten verses so brought to light. But for the recovery of all the survivingcantos we are. This scholarpublished at Peliyagoda in Ceylon both text and Sanna with a valuableintroduction. Appeared at Calcutta a nagari text with a fewnotes compiled. By the late panditHaridasa Qastri, M. Instruction in the Jeypore State, andpublished after his.

Death by KalipadaBandhyopiidhyaya, Principal of the.