Author: Dikshita, Sankara Balakrshna [1853-1898]
Title: Gangavataranacampuh / Srimadbalakrsnasankaradiksitaviracita [Gangavatarana-Campu]
Description: Ilahabada [Allahabad], Ganganathajha Kendriya... (1996). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 67,(159) pp. Series: Ganganathajha Kendriya Samskrta granthamala; 45 prasunam. / Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Text Series, No. 45.. Minor rubbing. Some stains to binding. Good. ¶ Contains a 67-page English Introduction + 159 pp text in Sanskrit [ Devanagari characters with English apparatus]. A poem (mixed in prose and verse). ["The Gangavatarana-Campu which is poublished here for the first time, is a work of the middle of the 18th Century which seeks to describe the legend of the descent of Ganges in a literary form using the genre of Campu..." - from Introduction.]

Keywords: Sanskrit Philology, Ganges, Literary History, Campu Literature, Poetry, India South Asia, , ,