Guest guest Posted March 14, 2003 Report Share Posted March 14, 2003 Thirty years ago, in his Indian kaavya Literature, A.K. Warder anticipated that some mysteries of the textual history of some kaavyas would eventually be resolved through computer analysis. Have the RtusaMhaara and the second half of the kumaarasaMbhava been subjected to such analysis by now? If so, it seems that the method has proven to be useless, since these parts of kaalidaasa's canon continue to be regarded as of uncertain authenticity. Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2003 Report Share Posted April 2, 2003 >Thirty years ago, in his Indian kaavya Literature, A.K. Warder anticipated >that some mysteries of the textual history of some kaavyas would eventually >be resolved through computer analysis. Have the RtusaMhaara and the second >half of the kumaarasaMbhava been subjected to such analysis by now? If so, >it seems that the method has proven to be useless, since these parts of >kaalidaasa's canon continue to be regarded as of uncertain authenticity. > >Phillip As a very belated reply to your query (I was away from Rome), I would like to inform you that the vexata quaestio of Kalidasa's authorship of the Rtusamhara has been dealt with (and answered in the negative) by Stella Sandahl in an article to appear within this month in our Rivista degli Studi Orientali: S. Sandahl, "The Rtusamhara: a different approach", RSO, No.75, fasc. I-IV. Best regards, Raffaele Torella -- Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax +39 06 4451209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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