This paper aims to draw attention to what seems to be a specific poetic overlapping created by Kalidasa between nature and the artificial world with a not secondary socio-political target. The attention is focused on the image of bannered cities compared with war chariots.

When a magnificent city looks like a heavenly grove: the fluttering flags and pennants on the mansions in the Mahabharata, in the Ramayana and in Kalidasa's work

PONTILLO, TIZIANA
2010-01-01

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This paper aims to draw attention to what seems to be a specific poetic overlapping created by Kalidasa between nature and the artificial world with a not secondary socio-political target. The attention is focused on the image of bannered cities compared with war chariots.
2010
9788371519147
Sanskrit Classical Literature; City imagery; Epics
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