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Jayasri Chattopadhyay
Jayasri Chattopadhyay (Jayaśrī Caṭṭopādhyāya) (b. 1945) is a Sanskrit writer and Sanskrit poet from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Her Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. was on 'Lyrical Elements of the Ramayana of Valmiki' and Doctor of Letters, D.lit on 'The Influence of Buddhist Avadana Literature on the literature of visvakabi Rabindranath Tagore'. Her collection of self-composed Sanskrit poems is named ''Nissangah Pranyayh''. The English version of this book is titled ''Love without attachment''. She has done a CD on Nissangah Pranayah which was released at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference held in Bangkok, June 2015. Her notable Sanskrit writings are 'Asafvilasa Samiksha', 'Sanskrita Sahitye Swapna', 'Mahavastuni Ramayananubhava', 'Adhyardhasataka Samiksha', ' Mricchakatike Varsha', 'Buddhacharite Ramayana samyam', 'Jagannathasya', 'Jagadabharanam', 'Sahitye smrityaloka', 'Usha Varavarnini', and 'Devi Suktam' which were published in different Sanskrit journals. She also edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
