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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 38 · No. 2 & 3

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Glimpses of Political History from the Natya Sastra of Bharata

By Dileep Kumar Kanjilal

Mining the Nāṭyaśāstra for historical data, this article argues that the ancient treatise on dramaturgy contains valuable political and ethnographic information. Though primarily concerned with…

June & Sept. 1962Vol. 38 · No. 2 & 3pp. 201–212

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 34 · No. 2

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Ancient Indian Geography in Banabhatta

By Dileep Kumar Kanjilal

In this study the author combs Bāṇabhaṭṭa’s literary works—principally the Kādambarī and the Harṣacarita—for geographical references and interprets them in light of historical sources. Bāṇa’s…

June - 1958Vol. 34 · No. 2pp. 123–138

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 31 · No. 4

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The Picture of Ancient India as revealed in Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya

By Dileep Kumar Kanjilal

This article reconstructs aspects of ancient Indian society using the Mahābhāṣya, a 2nd century BCE commentary on Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī attributed to Patañjali. The author mines the text’s numerous…

December - 1955Vol. 31 · No. 4pp. 375–382

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Glimpses of Political History from the Natya Sastra of Bharata

Ancient Indian Geography in Banabhatta

The Picture of Ancient India as revealed in Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya

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