Robert Goldman, University of California, Berkeley A Rasa Reader marks a serious contribution to scholarship on rasa and promises to shape the field for a long time to come. The result of this work was a unique supplementary reading and language development program for Indian and non-Indian children. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. A Śabda Reader brings together newly translated passages by authors from a variety of traditions—Brahmin, Buddhist, Jaina—representing a number of schools of thought. From what I remember, it has lots of beautiful pictures and is interesting to read, though not engaging enough for a protracted time (subjective of course, but I never read it for more than an hour length and usually in 10 to 30 minute doses).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In no other tradition did speculation on language have such a strong impact on philosophical thought as in premodern India.

The use of brightly coloured pictures is also seen as a strategy to capture students’ attentions and to stimulate their imaginations. This book provides engaging lessons that gradually move students from writing simple sentences to one paragraph. v=1704215558","width":488},{"alt":null,"id":8460800163972,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. A Rasa Reader incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker on classical Indian aesthetics, many never translated before.

A Rasa Reader is the product of enormous erudition in both the Indian and European traditions of the philosophy and science of aesthetics, and it will make a unique and powerful contribution to scholars in several areas. Family letters are grouped and sentences or paragraphs are used to give a greater variety in the writing practice exercises.v=1699371732","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8675673047172,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. We should be grateful to Pollock for many years of honest, hard, scholarly work resulting in this excellent, magisterial reader.