Old Edition

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Dear Colleagues,

I hope that someone who has access to a better library than ours could

help me to identify an old edition of the play Venisamhara by Bhatta

Narayana. Twenty years ago I bought with a couple of Rupies the remains

of a book from a street dealer in Bombay. Much is missing (title page,

preface, introduction), but the text is complete and therefore can be

used. The text is given in 200 pages accompanied with an English

translation on bottom of every page. The first verse begins in the

translation with the words:

 

May this cavityful of flowers, the juice in which is stirred (lulita) by

bees (as they hover about it), though warded off, the buds in which are

fully (sam) blown...

 

I suppose this is enough for identification. After the text start

elaborate notes in English, but in my copy they end abrupty in the

middle of a sentence commenting the verse 1, 25, the last page number

being 264.

In order to be able to refer to the text, I would like to know who was

the editor/translator and where and when the book was published.

 

Thanks

 

Klaus

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Klaus Karttunen, Ph.D.

Docent of Indology and Classical Ethnography

Institute of Asian and African Studies

PL 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B), 00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND

phone 358-0-19122188, fax 358-0-19122094