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Pandanus ’98Pandanus ’98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics – Kavya and Sangam

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Pandanus ’02Pandanus ’02: Nature in Indian Literatures and Art

Pandanus ’03Pandanus ’03: Nature Symbols in Literature

Pandanus ’04Pandanus ’04: Nature in Literature

Pandanus ’05Pandanus ’05: Nature in Literature, Myth and Ritual

Pandanus ’06Pandanus ’06: Nature in Literature and Ritual

Pandanus ’07Pandanus ’07: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual

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Volume 3, No. 1 (2009)Pandanus ’09: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 3, No. 1

Volume 3, No. 2 (2009)Pandanus ’09: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 3, No. 2

Volume 4, No. 1 (2010)Pandanus ’10: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 4, No. 1

Volume 4, No. 2 (2010)Pandanus ’10: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 4, No. 2

Volume 5, No. 1 (2011)Pandanus ’11: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 5, No. 1

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Volume 6, No. 1 (2012)Pandanus ’12: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 6, No. 1

Volume 6, No. 2 (2012)Pandanus ’12: Serpents in Angkor. Apotheosis of a Decorative Motif - Volume 6, No. 2

Volume 7, No. 1 (2013)Pandanus ’13: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 7, No. 1

Volume 7, No. 2 (2013)Pandanus ’13: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 7, No. 2

Volume 8, No. 1 (2014)Pandanus ’14: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 8, No. 1

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Volume 9, No. 1 (2015)Pandanus ’15: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 9, No. 1

Volume 9, No. 2 (2015)Pandanus ’15: Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual - Volume 9, No. 2

Pandanus ’98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics – Kavya and Sangam

Editors

J. Vacek

B. Knotková-Čapková

Reviewed by

Cinzia Pieruccini in: East and West 50, 1-4, December 2000, pp. 596-597.

Published by

Signeta

Prague 1999, 180 pp.

ISBN 80-902608-1-0

Summary

Papers presented to the international workshop (besides Charles University, participants from the Universities of Milano and Leipzig – see the list of papers) in May 1998, discussing natural symbolism, in particular flowers, and semiotics in classical Indian literature with an accent on Kavya (Sanskrit and Prakrit) and Sangam (Old Tamil) Literatures. Supported by a grant of the Czech Grant Agency GAČR.

Contents

article

Rain Poems and the Genesis of Kávya

G. Boccali

article

Neem and Camppaka in Classical Indian Literatures

J. Dvořák

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Some Remarks on Literary Analysis of the Symbolical Patterns in Ancient Tamil Poetry

B. Knotková-Čapková

article

Ambiguities, Polysemy, and Identifications

B. Kolver

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Sattasaí and pálai poems of Ainkurunúru

G. Pellegrini

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A Neytal Feature to Be Found in the Meghadúta

J. Vacek

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Plants in Kávya Poetry: Problems with Plant-Names

J. Čejka