Saartha
Appearance
Author | S L Bhyrappa |
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Language | Kannada |
Genre | Fiction |
Published | 1998 Sahitya Bhandara, Balepet, Bangalore. |
Publication place | India |
Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Preceded by | Tantu |
Followed by | Mandra (Novel) |
Saartha, which means Caravan, a novel written by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. Through a caravan, the novel explores the whole of India of the 8th century A.D. covering the political, economical, artistic and spiritual life of the country. It uses some historical persons like Adi Shankaracharya, Maṇḍana Miśra, Ubhaya Bharati and Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and institutions like Nalanda.[1][2] It is a unique novel translated into Sanskrit and received by Sanskrit scholars like a work originally written in Sanskrit It is translated into Hindi and in English published by Oxford University Press,Chennai [3]
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