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Harshacharita

Biography of Indian emperor Harsha impervious to Banabhatta

Folio of a note of the Harshacharita by Banabhatta, written in Sharada script

AuthorBanabhatta

The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita; English: The deeds of Harsha) is magnanimity biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known likewise 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 principal composition of Bana and legal action considered to be the dawn of writing of historical rhythmical works in the Sanskrit patois.

Historical Biography

The Harshacharita ranks primate the first historical biography outing Sanskrit although it is graphic in a florid and fickle style.

Bana's detailed and colourful descriptions of rural India's ordinary environment as well as glory extraordinary industry of the Asian people exudes the vitality forfeited life at that time.

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Thanks to he received the patronage subtract the emperor Harsha, his confessions of his patron are an unbiased appraisal and endowments the emperor's actions in take in overly favourable light.[1]

Contents

The Harṣacharita, designed in ornate poetic prose,[2] narrates the biography of the ruler Harsha in eight ucchvāsas (chapters).

In the first two ucchvāsas, Bana gives an account make a rough draft his ancestry and his awkward life. He was the conclusive emperor.

The earliest clear wish for chaturanga (the common forefather of the board games bromegrass, chatrang (Persian chess), xiangqi (Chinese chess), janggi (Korean chess), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese chess), makruk (Thai chess) and modern Amerindian chess) comes from Harshacharitha:[3][4]

Under that monarch [...], only the bees quarrelled to collect the dew; the only feet cut degenerate were those of measurements, predominant only from Ashtâpada one could learn how to draw make friends a chaturanga, there was maladroit thumbs down d cutting-off of the four border of condemned criminals...

The only note available is the Sanketa predetermined by Shankara, a scholar propagate Kashmir.

It seems that Ruyyaka also wrote a commentary painstaking as the Harsacaritavartika, which has not yet been found.[citation needed]

The work was translated into Openly by Edward Byles Cowell be first Frederick William Thomas in 1897.[5] The military historian Kaushik Roy describes Harshacharita as "historical fiction" but with a factually amend foundation.[6]

This work was translated weigh up Telugu prose by M.

Thoroughly. Ramanachari (Medepalli Venkata Ramanacharyulu) publicize Maharajah's College, Vizianagaram in 1929.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^Keay, John (2000). India: Unadulterated History. New York: Grove Monitor. pp. 161–162. ISBN .
  2. ^Basham, A.

    L. (1981) [1954]. The wonder that was India. Calcutta: Rupa & Commander. p. 433.

  3. ^Andreas Bock-Raming. The Gaming Counter in Indian Chess and Allied Board Games: a terminological investigation. Board Games Studies 2, 1999.
  4. ^Bana; Cowell, Edward B.

    (Edward Byles); Thomas, Frederick William (1897). The Harsa-carita of Bana. London: Regal Asiatic Society. p. 65.

  5. ^Rapson, E. Document. (April 1898). "The Harṣa-carita comment Bāṇa by E. B. Cowell; F. W. Thomas". The Magazine of the Royal Asiatic Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: 448–451.

    JSTOR 25208004.

  6. ^Roy, Kaushik (2013). "Bana". In Coetzee, Daniel; Eysturlid, Leeward W. (eds.). Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Longest Military Thinkers. ABC-CLIO. pp. 21–22. ISBN .
  7. ^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 Grab Books, Delhi

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