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Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond. By Jesse Ross Knutson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. x, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780520282056 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2018

Heidi Pauwels*
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 

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1 This chapter appeared in an earlier avatar in this journal: Knutson, Jesse Ross, “The Political Poetic of the Sena Court,” Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 2 (2010): 371401CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Oddly, the posthumously published translation of his Āryāśaptasatī by Friedhelm Hardy is not referred to at all: Hardy, Friedhelm and Govardhana, , Seven Hundred Elegant Verses, Clay Sanskrit Library 55 (New York: New York University Press, 2009)Google Scholar.

3 Rao, Velcheru Narayana and Shulman, David Dean, A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)Google Scholar; Pischel, Richard, Die Hofdichter des Lakṣmaṇasena (Gӧttingen: Dieterich, 1893), 89Google Scholar.

4 Pollock, Sheldon, Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)Google Scholar.