dvaipayana.net

 

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

• Resources on various aspects of the Great Itihasa: texts, translations, variations, commentaries, retellings, studies, art, theatre, ritual, folklore, tribal culture, etc. etc.
• Harivamsa
  Sanskrit text (Chitrashala Press) edited by Pandit Ramachandrashastri Kinjawadekar. Text in ITRANS prepared by K.S. Ramachandran and Gilles Schaufelberger
  English translation:
  Harivamsa Parva by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao
  Vishnu Parva and Bhavishya Parva (ongoing) by A. Purushothaman and A. Harindranath
  • Bharata Savitri  
  • Chapters from Southern Recension
    Harivamsha Parva
    Vishnu Parva
  • Sheshadharamaprakaranam
  • Harivamsa in Translation
  • Paushkara section of Harivamsa-Bhavishyaparva with Nilakantha commentary (in devanagari and malayalam scripts)
  • Books and Articles on Harivamsa
  • Harivamsha and Performance Traditions
  • Selections from the text of Harivamsa in Malayalam script
  • New light on Harivamsa, an integral part of Mahabharata [A review/appreciation of Andre Couture's Krishna in the Harivamsa: Volume 1 - The Wonderful Play of a Cosmic Child, published by D. K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2015.]

• 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).
• Selections from Purana
• Barbarika from Skanda Purana
• Old Works in Malayalam
• vallokkavi
• Kerala
  • Wooden Sculptures at Trichambaram Shri Krishna Temple

  • Kuratti Theyyam (Kuratti, Pottan and Gulikan)

  • Kamsavadham Nangiarkuthu -- Dr. Aparna Nangiar
  • Tolppavakkuthu at Vazhavil Bhagavathi Temple' Kandanishsheri near Guruvayur
  • Nizhalkuttu Kathakali in Performance

  • Pallippana Ritual at Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada - May 2011

  • An article on Pallippana by Ambalappuzha Gopakumar

• 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.
• SUVARNNORJJAM-2K17 Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur -- Physics Department Golden Jubilee 2017

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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