Author: KÌLIDÌSA / CHÉZY, ANTOINE-LÉONARD (Ed.):
Title: [...] La reconnaissance de Sacountala, drama sanskrit et practit de Calidasa, publié pour la première fois, en original, sur un manuscrit unique de la Bibliothèque du roi. Accompagné d'une traduction française, de notes philologiques, critiques et littéraires, et suivi d'un appendice. Paris, a la librairie orientale de Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1830.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (iv), xxxii, 268, Sanskrit text pp. (iv),166; Notes pp. 122; Appendix pp. 100. With one folding lithographed plate in sepia. Engraved dedication to Le Baron Silvestre de Sacy (Chézy's teacher). A beautiful large copy with wide margins. Contemporary silk covered boards, somewhat rubbed. Occasionally some light foxing or staining. Chézy's magnum opus and editio princeps of Shakuntala (in the Bengali recension) with a French translation together with the corresponding episode from the Mahabharata in the appendix. The Hindu story of Shakuntala (Abhij–‹sh‹kuntalais) told in the epic Mahabharata is considered the best of K‹lidása's works. He was a Sanskrit poet and dramatist widely regarded as the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. Much of his life is unknown but it's believed he lived in the 5th century.Antoine-Le—nard de Chézy (1773-1832) was a French orientalist, pupil of Silvestre de Sacy, who became a pioneer of Sanskrit in Europe. He was an Arabic and Persian scholar who taught himself Sanskrit from the manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale. He was appointed the first professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France (first of its kind in Europe). Today he is almost forgotten and in the shadow of his talented students Eugène Burnouf, Franz Bopp and Othmar Frank to mention a few. Ref: G. Pollet: "Indian Epic Values: Ramayana and its Impact" Leuven 1995. Pp. 117.

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