The prospects of memory. Shulman, D. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 26:309–334, 1998.
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[first paragraph] It is springtime, a sad and lonely spring; Dusyanta, amnesiac hero of . ̃ ? ? ? ? ? Kalidasa's masterpiece, the Abhijnanasakuntala, is going home. He has completed his most recent mission in heaven, destroying Indra's demon foes; this latest feat has temporarily extricated the king from the forlorn and self-pitying state to which his own forgetfulness had reduced him. This act of forgetting was the central, defining episode of Dus yanta's . career; and his story, now cyclically moving toward closure in the final ? ? act of K alidasa's play, is undoubtedly the most famous meditation on memory and forgetting in the whole classical literature of India. It is this aspect of the work that I wish to explore, together with a glance at related themes in the linguistic domain as formulated by Bhartr hari . ? ? ? ? in the Vakya-padıya, perhaps some decades after Kalidasa.
@article{Shulman1998,
abstract = {[first paragraph] It is springtime, a sad and lonely spring; Dusyanta, amnesiac hero of . {\~{}} ? ? ? ? ? Kalidasa's masterpiece, the Abhijnanasakuntala, is going home. He has completed his most recent mission in heaven, destroying Indra's demon foes; this latest feat has temporarily extricated the king from the forlorn and self-pitying state to which his own forgetfulness had reduced him. This act of forgetting was the central, defining episode of Dus yanta's . career; and his story, now cyclically moving toward closure in the final ? ? act of K alidasa's play, is undoubtedly the most famous meditation on memory and forgetting in the whole classical literature of India. It is this aspect of the work that I wish to explore, together with a glance at related themes in the linguistic domain as formulated by Bhartr hari . ? ? ? ? in the Vakya-padıya, perhaps some decades after Kalidasa.},
author = {Shulman, D.},
doi = {10.1023/A:1004338308796},
file = {:Users/michaelk/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Shulman - 1998 - The prospects of memory.pdf:pdf},
journal = {Journal of Indian Philosophy},
pages = {309--334},
title = {{The prospects of memory}},
volume = {26},
year = {1998}
}

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