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    The Harsacharita by Banabhatta

     

    R.P. Shastri (Editor)Banabhatta (Author)E.P. Cowell (Translator)P.W. Thomas (Translator)
    SynopsisThe Harshacharita is a monumental historical romantic fiction in ‘akhyayika’ form written by Banabatta in eight chapters. The story in the Harshacharita is not a full biography but covers the reign of Harsha upto the recovery of his lost elder sister Rajyashri, and the royal and military activities of some years. Though some persons, happenings, events and places described here are verified by history, it must be remembered that Bana is not writing this fictional biography as a historian but as a poet or an epic bard, decorating his tale with fancy, fantasy, the marvel of romance and adventure, and with all the literary devices of a determined poet. The Harshacharita occupies an important place in Sanskrit literature because it furnishes historical and sociological details during his time.
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    Bāṇabhaṭṭa

    7th-century Sanskrit writer and poet

    In this article, the surname is Bāṇa.

    Bāṇabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of the Emperor Harsha, during his reign at Kanyakubja. Bāna's principal works include a biography of Harsha, the Harshacharita (The Life of Harsha),[1] and one of the world's earliest novels, Kadambari. Bāṇa died before finishing the novel and it was completed by his son Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa. Both these works are noted texts of Sanskrit literature.[2] The other works attributed to him are the Caṇḍikāśataka and a drama, the Pārvatīpariṇaya. Banabhatta gets an applause as "Banochhistam Jagatsarvam" meaning Bana has described everything in this world and nothing is left.

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    A detailed account regarding his ancestry and early life can be reconstructed from the introductory verses attached to the Kadambari and the first tw

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    Harshacharita

    Biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta

    Folio of a manuscript of the Harshacharita bygd Banabhatta, written in Sharada script

    AuthorBanabhatta

    The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita; English: The deeds of Harsha) is the biography of Indian kejsare Harsha bygd Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India. He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha. The Harshacharita was the first composition of väg eller spår and fryst vatten considered to be the beginning of writing of historical poetic works in the Sanskrit language.

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    The Harshacharita ranks as the first historical biography in Sanskrit although it is written in a florid and fanciful style. Bana's detailed and levande descriptions of rural India's natural environment as well as the extraordinary industry of the Indian people exudes the vitality of life at that time. Since he received the patronage of the em