The Rise of Wisdom Moon. Krishna mishra

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      Copyright © 2009 by the CSL

      All rights reserved.

      First Edition 2009

      The Clay Sanskrit Library is co-published by

      New York University Press

      and the JJC Foundation.

      Further information about this volume

      and the rest of the Clay Sanskrit Library

      is available at the end of this book

      and on the following websites:

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4838-1 (cloth : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8147-4838-4 (cloth : alk. paper)

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Krsnamisra.

      [Prabodhacandrodaya. English & Sanskrit.]

      The rise of wisdom moon / by Krsnamisra ;

      translated by Matthew T. Kapstein ;

      with a foreword by J.N. Mohanty. -- 1st ed.

      p. cm. -- (The Clay Sanskrit library)

      Sanskrit texts with parallel English translations on facing pages.

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4838-1 (cl : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8147-4838-4 (cl : alk. paper)

      1. Hinduism--Drama. 2. Sanskrit drama--Translations into English.

      I. Kapstein, Matthew. II. Title.

      PK3798.K65P713 2009

      891'.22--dc22

      2009021929

      CONTENTS

       CSL Conventions vii

       Foreword xv

       Introduction xvii

       Bibliography lxii

       Dramatis Personae lxvii

       THE RISE OF WISDOM MOON

       Prelude to Act One 3

       Interlude 17

       Act One: Illusion’s Game 33

       Interlude Introducing Act Two 45

       Act Two: Where Magnus Nescience is Chief 65

       Act Three: Charlatans’ Charades 99

       Interlude Introducing Act Four 141

       Act Four: Intuition’s Endeavor 151

       Prologue to Act Five 185

       Act Five: The Dawn of Dispassion 205

       Prologue to Act Six 229

       Act Six: Living Liberation 243

       Chaya 281

       Notes 291

       Meters Used 319

      CSL CONVENTIONS

      Sanskrit Alphabetical Order

      Vowels:

      Gutturals:

      Palatals:

      Retroflex:

      Dentals:

      Labials:

      Semivowels:

      Spirants:

      Guide to Sanskrit Pronunciation

      but

      father

      sit

      fee

      put

      boo

      vocalic r, American pur-

      dy or English pretty

      lengthened r

      vocalic l, able

      made, esp. in Welsh pro-

      nunciation

      bite

      rope, esp. Welsh pronun-

      ciation; Italian solo

      sound

      anusvara nasalizes the pre-

      ceding vowel

      visarga, a voiceless aspira-

      tion (resembling the En-

      glish h), or like Scottish

      loch, or an aspiration with

      a faint echoing of the last

      element of the preceding

      vowel so that taih is pro-

      nounced taihi

      luck

      blockhead