Imagining the urban:sanskrit and the city in early India /
Shonaleeka Kaul
- Ranikhet : Permanent Black, 2010.
- xi, 278 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index.
1. The ambit of the city 2. Within the city 3. Urban characters and their world (masculine and feminine archetypes) 4. . Urban characters and their world (ascetic, brahman, king and the social order) 5. The urban experience 6. Symbolic values and the city 4.
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Sanskrit poetry--History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature.