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First Edition 2009
The Clay Sanskrit Library is co-published by
New York University Press
and the JJC Foundation.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4838-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8147-4838-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Krsnamisra.
[Prabodhacandrodaya. English & Sanskrit.]
The rise of wisdom moon / by Krsnamisra ;
translated by Matthew T. Kapstein ;
with a foreword by J.N. Mohanty. -- 1st ed.
p. cm. -- (The Clay Sanskrit library)
Sanskrit texts with parallel English translations on facing pages.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4838-1 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8147-4838-4 (cl : alk. paper)
1. Hinduism--Drama. 2. Sanskrit drama--Translations into English.
I. Kapstein, Matthew. II. Title.
PK3798.K65P713 2009
891'.22--dc22
2009021929
CONTENTS
Interlude Introducing Act Two 45
Act Two: Where Magnus Nescience is Chief 65
Act Three: Charlatans’ Charades 99
Interlude Introducing Act Four 141
Act Four: Intuition’s Endeavor 151
Act Five: The Dawn of Dispassion 205
Act Six: Living Liberation 243
CSL CONVENTIONS
Sanskrit Alphabetical Order
Vowels:
Gutturals:
Palatals:
Retroflex:
Dentals:
Labials:
Semivowels:
Spirants:
Guide to Sanskrit Pronunciation
but
father
sit
fee
put
boo
vocalic r, American pur-
dy or English pretty
lengthened r
vocalic l, able
made, esp. in Welsh pro-
nunciation
bite
rope, esp. Welsh pronun-
ciation; Italian solo
sound
anusvara nasalizes the pre-
ceding vowel
visarga, a voiceless aspira-
tion (resembling the En-
glish h), or like Scottish
loch, or an aspiration with
a faint echoing of the last
element of the preceding
vowel so that taih is pro-
nounced taihi
luck
blockhead