KavyaJuly 31, 2026
A Second Rādhāsudhānidhi: The Treasure of Rasa
This devotional text celebrates Rādhā as the essence of divine love and rasa, with elaborate prayers for her grace and service in the groves of Vṛndāvana.
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KavyaJuly 31, 2026
Śrutabodha: Kālidāsa's Prosody, Explained for Beginners
The Śrutabodha is a short Sanskrit treatise on prosody attributed to Kālidāsa — its name means 'understanding by hearing,' because the characteristics of met...
KavyaJuly 03, 2026
Vṛttaratnākara: The Jewel-Mine of Sanskrit Meters
Kedārabhaṭṭa's manual of Sanskrit prosody — ten syllables that build all verse, the sama/viṣama taxonomy, and prastāra, the binary-arithmetic method for reconstructing a lost meter by halving.
KavyaMay 26, 2026
Praising Nepal: Sabhāvinoda's Portrait of a Land
A Sanskrit court poem celebrating Nepal as a virtuous land, describing it through negation—a place free of vice, protected by mountains, where heaven and earth become indistinguishable.
KavyaMay 21, 2026
The Moonlight of the Assembly: Time and Law Combined
The 'Moonlight of the Assembly' — Sabhākaumudī — is a work that refuses to choose between astronomy and law. Its author, Vāmorinārāyaṇa, announces in the ope...
KavyaFebruary 10, 2026
Sabhātaraṅga: Wit and Wisdom for the Assembly
A collection of Sanskrit subhāṣitas praising the virtuous and skewering the wicked, using nature metaphors and practical wisdom. The Sabhātaraṅga is poetry built to be quoted.
KavyaFebruary 07, 2026
What Perishes and What Endures: Sabhāśṛṅgāra
A chain of proverb-verses on how virtues quietly ruin themselves from within, and the enmities too fixed in the order of things to ever be mended.
KavyaFebruary 05, 2026
The Nectar of Rādhā: A Devotional Poem's Longing
Śrī Vyāsa Kāśīrāma's poem to Rādhā as the essence of rasa — a longing not to possess the divine but to sweep its courtyard, and a theology built entirely on the wish to serve.