Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval IndiaThis book represents the first full-length study of courtly culture in classical India. It explores the growth of royal households and the crystallisation of a courtly worldview in the Gupta period and its aftermath (c. 350 750) which would remain stable until 1200. Using both literary sources and inscriptions from this wider period, the book sets out the organisation, personnel and protocol of the royal household as the background for a sustained examination of courtly ethics, notions of beauty, and theories of erotic love. |
Contents
V | 1 |
VI | 4 |
VII | 11 |
VIII | 19 |
IX | 27 |
X | 29 |
XI | 32 |
XII | 38 |
XXX | 162 |
XXXI | 170 |
XXXII | 175 |
XXXIII | 183 |
XXXIV | 185 |
XXXV | 188 |
XXXVI | 193 |
XXXVII | 201 |
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according adorned aesthetic antaḥpura Arthaśāstra assembly audience Bāņa beauty body brahmin Calukyas Candragupta Common Era complex context counsellor court courtesans courtesy courtier courtly literature courtship culture dākṣinya Delhi denoted dharmaśāstra discourse dispositions drama early India early medieval élite emotions erotic love ethical eulogies example favour fly-whisks formed gestures gosthi Gupta period Gurjara Harṣa hierarchy History honour important inner inscription Kadamba Kālidāsa kāma Kamasutra Kautilya kāvya king's knowledge literary lord lovers Maitraka Mālavikāgnimitra Mānasollāsa manuals Maukhari medieval India mind ministers Motilal Banarsidass Nāga nāgaraka Natyaśāstra nāyikās noble one's ornaments palace Pallava Pañcatantra play pleasure poetic poetry political Pollock prince queen rank rasa Ratirahasya realm relations relationships royal household sabhā Samudragupta Sanskrit sense servants seventh century sexual Sheldon Pollock social society sources speech subordinate kings suggest theme tion titles trans treatises typically Udayana various Vātsyāyana verses virtue women worldly Yasodharman
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