dvaipayana.net

 

Welcome to dvaipayana.net
dedicated to collecting, maintaining and providing resources on:

• Mahabharata
  Resources on various aspects of the Great Itihasa: texts, translations, variations, commentaries, retellings, studies, art, theatre, ritual, folklore, tribal culture, etc. etc 

              Harivamsa Resources   Includes    Bharata Savitri

              Chapters from Southern Recension  

              from Harivamsha Parva ,   Vishnu Parva      

              Sheshadharamaprakaranam

              Harivamsa in Translation

              Selections from Nilakantha commentary

               Harivamsha and Performance Traditions

          

• Krishnanattam
  Krishnanattam or Krishnattam is a temple art, performed at Guruvayur Temple as a votive ritual offering by a troupe under the management of Guruvayur Devaswom (Guruvayur- 680 101, Thrissur Dt, Kerala, India). The performance is based on Krishnagiti, a text of sloka-s and padam-s in Sanskrit, composed by Manavedan, the Zamorin King of Calicut, in 1654. Krishna's story as described in detail in the tenth and eleventh cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam, Mahabharatam and Harivamsam is presented as song, dance and acting in a cycle of eight plays in eight days. The plays are Avataram, Kaliyamardanam, Rasakrida, Kamsavadham, Svayamvaram, Banayuddham, Vividavadham and Svargarohanam (akarakasvabavisva is the mnemonic to remember the names in order).
• Kovilan
  This home page is dedicated to the works of Kovilan, one of the great writers in Malayalam language.
• Literary works of A. Purushothaman
  Works in Malayalam, translations from Malayalam to English and from English to Malayalam.

This site is maintained by A. Harindranath.
You can contact the maintainer at harindranath_a @ yahoo.com.

In case you are interested, here is the academic home page of the maintainer at Saha Institute, Kolkata.

 

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