Classical Sanskrit text on Dance by Jāyasenāpati, 13th century; Sanskrit text with English translation.

The Ratnavali or the 'Jewel Necklace' is a drama of the Natika type by Sriharsa. The theme is the marriage, through various obstacles and at the clever intervention of the minister Yaugandharayana, of king Udayana and Ratnavali, daughter of the king of Ceylon. A brief but sufficiently exhaustive commentary in Sanskrit has been written, as there was no suitable ancient commentary available on this play. Another feature of this edition is the introduction wherein all that has been known of the author and the play has been put together for ready reference and systematic study.

The Bhakti Ratnavali is an anthology of verses selected by a medieval ascetic named Vishnu Puri from the Srimad Bhagavata which is the magnum opus on Bhakti and is accepted as authoritative by all schools of Vaishnavism. Vishnu Puri has selected from this vast and amorphous literature four hundred and five verses. In these verses, the reader will get a clear outline of the doctrine of Bhakti both in its theory and practice as conceived by the great devotional text the Bhagavata.

Professor Lal has provided an introduction on the history and aesthetic theory of Sanskrit drama, individual prefaces for each play, a phonetic guide to the pronunciation of the Indian names, and a selective bibliography.

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