Ranna Gadayuddham: The Duel of the Maces - Couverture rigide

Sharon, Ammel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8193779495 ISBN 13 : 9788193779491

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2026

Synopsis

The Gadayuddham (The Duel of the Maces) is a kavya composed in classical Kannada literary style at the turn of the eleventh century CE. It is written in campO, a genre that developed in the tenth century as a mixture of poetry and prose. Ranna's poem is remarkably dramatic in nature and is a meditation on the cost of war. Crisp dialogue, body gestures and imagery fill the poem. It is as if the poet were giving us directions for a play. Ranna employs 'flashbacks', a technique called simhavalokana, that is, a lion turning casually to glance behind him. Ranna builds up to the duel through characters recalling episodes of injury or through lamentation. The duel occupies only a short space in the eighth canto, but Ranna takes this time to fill in past episodes and reflect on the impact of war. This thousand-year-old poem will interest scholars as well as lay readers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Purushothama Bilimale is Professor, Kannada Language Chair Centre of Indian Languages, SLL&CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

R.V.S. Sundaram was Professor and Director of the Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies at the University of Mysore. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ammel Sharon holds an M.Phil. degree from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Akkamahadevi was Assistant Professor of Kannada at the University of Mysore. She holds an M.Phil. degree in translation and Ph.D. degree in South Indian Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8193779495
• ISBN 13: 9788193779491
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 339
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