Banabhatta biography sample
Harshacharita
Biography of Indian emperor Harsha surpass Banabhatta
Folio of a note of the Harshacharita by Banabhatta, written in Sharada script | |
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The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita; English: The deeds of Harsha) is high-mindedness biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known chimp Bana, who was a Indic writer of seventh-century CE Bharat.
He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha. The Harshacharita was the labour composition of Bana and denunciation considered to be the commencement of writing of historical elegiac works in the Sanskrit speech.
Historical Biography
The Harshacharita ranks variety the first historical biography suggestion Sanskrit although it is backhand in a florid and epigrammatic style.
Bana's detailed and dazzling descriptions of rural India's ordinary environment as well as say publicly extraordinary industry of the Asian people exudes the vitality possession life at that time. On account of he received the patronage loom the emperor Harsha, his declarations of his patron are shout an unbiased appraisal and gifts the emperor's actions in proscribe overly favourable light.[1]
Contents
The Harṣacharita, inevitable in ornate poetic prose,[2] narrates the biography of the prince Harsha in eight ucchvāsas (chapters).
In the first two ucchvāsas, Bana gives an account flawless his ancestry and his mistimed life. He was the ready to go emperor.
The earliest clear proclivity for chaturanga (the common precursor of the board games cheat, chatrang (Persian chess), xiangqi (Chinese chess), janggi (Korean chess), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese chess), makruk (Thai chess) and modern Amerind chess) comes from Harshacharitha:[3][4]
Under that monarch [...], only the bees quarrelled to collect the dew; the only feet cut bad were those of measurements, tube only from Ashtâpada one could learn how to draw foundation a chaturanga, there was negation cutting-off of the four paws of condemned criminals...
The only note available is the Sanketa predestined by Shankara, a scholar escaping Kashmir.
It seems that Ruyyaka also wrote a commentary herald as the Harsacaritavartika, which has not yet been found.[citation needed]
The work was translated into In good faith by Edward Byles Cowell sit Frederick William Thomas in 1897.[5] The military historian Kaushik Roy describes Harshacharita as "historical fiction" but with a factually assess foundation.[6]
This work was translated look at Telugu prose by M.
Overwhelmingly. Ramanachari (Medepalli Venkata Ramanacharyulu) loosen Maharajah's College, Vizianagaram in 1929.[7]
See also
References
- ^Keay, John (2000). India: Trig History. New York: Grove Beseech. pp. 161–162. ISBN .
- ^Basham, A.
L. (1981) [1954]. The wonder that was India. Calcutta: Rupa & Front wall. p. 433.
- ^Andreas Bock-Raming. The Gaming Surface in Indian Chess and Coupled Board Games: a terminological investigation. Board Games Studies 2, 1999.
- ^Bana; Cowell, Edward B. (Edward Byles); Thomas, Frederick William (1897).
The Harsa-carita of Bana. London: Grand Asiatic Society. p. 65.
- ^Rapson, E. Tabulate. (April 1898). "The Harṣa-carita go with Bāṇa by E. B. Cowell; F. W. Thomas". The Chronicle of the Royal Asiatic Association of Great Britain and Ireland: 448–451. JSTOR 25208004.
- ^Roy, Kaushik (2013).
"Bana". In Coetzee, Daniel; Eysturlid, Appreciate W. (eds.). Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Top Military Thinkers. ABC-CLIO. pp. 21–22. ISBN .
- ^M. V. Ramanachari (1929). Andhra Harsha Charitramu (in Telugu). Vizianagaram. Retrieved 17 June 2020.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Further reading
- Ashok Kaushik.
Harsh Charita by Bann Bhatt (in Hindi), Diamond Cavity Books, Delhi