Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam.

AuthorGEROW, EDWIN
PositionReview

Pandanus '98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangam. Edited by JAROSLAV VACEK and BLANKA KNOTKOVA-CAPKOVA. Prague: SIGNETA, 1999. Pp. 179 (paper).

This small volume publishes six papers given at a workshop, "Flower Symbolism in Classical Indian Literature," held in Prague in May 1998--plus one more not listed in the program: J. Cejka's "Plants in Kavya Poetry: Problems with Plant Names" (pp. 167-78). The quite various matters treated include "rain poems" (G. Boccali), allusions to "neem and campaka" (J. Dvorak), a comparison of Sattasai and Ainkurunuru (G. Pellegrini), "A Neytal Feature to be Found in the Meghaduta" (J. Vacek), and "symbolical patterns in ancient Tamil poetry" (B...

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