History of South IndiaThe history of southern India covers a span of over four thousand years during which the region saw the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. The period of known history of southern India begins with the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE to 200 BCE), Sangam period (c. 600 BCE to 300 CE) and Medieval south India until the 15th century CE. Dynasties of Chera, Chola, Pandyan, Travancore, Cochin, Zamorin, Kolathunadu, Chalukya, Pallava, Satavahana, Rashtrakuta, Kakatiya, Reddy dynasty, Seuna (Yadava) dynasty, Vijayanagara, Bahamani empire and Hoysala were at their peak during various periods of history.
MṛcchakatikaMṛcchakatika (Mṛcchakaṭikam मृच्छकटिकम्), also spelled Mṛcchakaṭikā, Mrchchhakatika, Mricchakatika, or Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Śūdraka, an ancient playwright who is possibly from the 5th century CE, and who is identified by the prologue as a Kshatriya king as well as a devotee of Shiva who lived for above 110 years. The play is set in the ancient city of Ujjayini during the reign of the King Pālaka, near the end of the Pradyota dynasty that made up the first quarter of the fifth century BCE.
BhavabhutiBhavabhuti est un écrivain de théâtre et de poésie en sanskrit de l'Inde du . Il est très reconnu aujourd'hui. Il serait né dans le district de Gondia dans l'état du Maharastra et a composé ses pièces et ses poèmes sur les bords du Yamuna, à Kalpi. Ses trois pièces les plus fameuses sont des drames, le Malatimadhava (L'Histoire de Malati et Madhava), le Mahaviracharita (Les aventures de Râma) et l’Uttararamacharita (Les aventures plus tardives de Râma). Catégorie:Écrivain de l'Inde ancienne Catégorie:Écriva
Shiva PuranaThe Shiva Purana is one of eighteen major texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily revolves around the Hindu god Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods. The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve Samhitas (Books); however, the Purana adds that it was abridged by Sage Vyasa before being taught to Romaharshana.
ShikshaShiksha (शिक्षा, IAST and ISO: ) is a Sanskrit word, which means "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill". It also refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies, on phonetics and phonology in Sanskrit. Shiksha is the field of Vedic study of sound, focussing on the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, accent, quantity, stress, melody and rules of euphonic combination of words during a Vedic recitation. Each ancient Vedic school developed this field of Vedanga, and the oldest surviving phonetic textbooks are the Pratishakyas.
KshemendraKshemendra (; 990-1070 CE) was an 11th-century Sanskrit polymath-poet, satirist, philosopher, historian, dramatist, translator and art-critic from Kashmir. Kshemendra was born into an old, cultured, and affluent family. His father was Prakashendra, a descendant of Narendra who was the minister to Jayapida. Both his education and literary output were broad and varied. He studied literature under "the foremost teacher of his time, the celebrated Shaiva philosopher and literary exponent Abhinavagupta".
Bouddha-CharitaBouddha Charita (बुद्धचरितम्, translittération : Buddhacarita, « Actes du Bouddha — à savoir Siddhartha Gautama ») est le titre d'une œuvre du philosophe et poète indien Ashvagosha, datant du de l'ère commune. Il s'agit de la première biographie complète de Shakyamuni Bouddha, le bouddha historique — et sans doute la plus célèbre. Cette version en sanskrit est composée de vingt-huit chants, dont treize sont parvenus jusqu'à nous.
