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Published: 4 June 2021
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Journal articles on the topic "Riddles, Sanskrit"

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Sulaniya, Kavita Kumari. "Proverbs in the Meena Tribe." RESEARCH HUB International Multidisciplinary Research Journal 12, no. 1 (2025): 56–60. https://doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2025.v12n1.007.

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The rural community has been using various expressions, proverbs, idioms, and riddles seamlessly in their daily lives. All of these serve as authentic documents of the rural people's linguistic wit. Wherever individuals use proverbs, their statements manage to leave a lasting impact on the listeners. On the other hand, the use of idioms not only creates linguistic beauty but also enhances it. In moments of leisure, riddles play a unique role in providing joy to the mind, and at the same time, young individuals continuously test each other's intellectual abilities through riddles. Sanskrit lite
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Shulman, David. "On being human in the sanskrit epic: The riddle of Nala." Journal of Indian Philosophy 22, no. 1 (1994): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01066357.

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Chudal, Alaka Atreya. "Modern Nepali Oral Transmissions of Vetālapañcaviṃśati Stories to Europe". Philological Encounters 6, № 1-2 (2021): 70–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10020.

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Abstract This article presents three recitation versions of two tales from the famous Vetālapañcaviṃśati (VP; the “Twenty-Five Tales of an Animated Corpse”, a medieval Sanskrit anthology of riddle-tales) that made their way orally from South Asia to Europe. The original work is one of the rare Sanskrit texts to have been disseminated widely and over a long period of time. It is a work that has thrived in oral, manuscript and printed versions. The stories in question, recorded in Germany as retold by three Nepali prisoners of war during World War I, show how this pre-modern Indian textual trad
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Cielas, Hermina. "Pushing Mind to the Limits: Visual Forms in Dharmadāsa’s "Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍana"". Cracow Indological Studies 21, № 2 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.21.2019.02.01.

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People have always tried to master memorizing—a factor playing an immense role in the circulation of Indian literature. To commit to memory seemed to be one of the characteristics of educated people, the source of knowledge and respect. Literary riddles were a great tool for shaping and sharpening the mind. As multi-leveled exercises they engage different parts of the brain in the process of memorizing. Dharmadāsa’s work, Vidadghamukhamaṇḍana, “The Ornament of the Wise Man’s Mouth” (ca. 11th century), served as a manual helping to enhance cognitive skills. Bandhas, visual forms included in Vid
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Siddiqui, Mehvish. "Misplacing Heads, Textual Formation, and Reformation: Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara, Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads, and Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana." Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 3 (2019). https://doi.org/10.71106/phmz2929.

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Vetala, the daemon, tests King Vikramaditya’s wisdom by telling him tales and making him solve a riddle at the end of each tale. This premise forms the structure of Somadeva’s 11 th century collection of Indian folktales retold in Sanskrit—the Kathasaritasagara. One of the tales in the book is about a woman who accidentally switches the head of her husband with that of her brother. Drawing from this 11 th century tale, Thomas Mann published a novella in 1940, The Transposed Heads, which further inspired Girish Karnad’s 1972 play Hayavadana. This paper explores the textual trajectory of the afo
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Books on the topic "Riddles, Sanskrit"

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Vēṇugōpālarāvu, Sūrapanēni. Prahēlikā prapaiccam. Poṭṭi Śrīrāmulu Telugu Viśvavidyālayaṃ, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Riddles, Sanskrit"

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Salomon, Richard. "When Is a Riddle Not a Riddle? Some Comments on Riddling and Related Poetic Devices in Classical Sanskrit." In Untying The Knot. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195101867.003.0009.

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Abstract Sanskrit riddles have attracted some interest in modern scholarship, though it cannot yet be said that they have been comprehensively or authoritatively treated. The most important work on the subject is Sternbach 1975. Bhagwat 1965 also treats of Sanskrit riddles in detail, along with material in other languages. Otherwise, the modern critical literature is generally limited to briefer studies, such as Porcher 1979, and incidental discussions in works on other subjects.
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Ruiz-Falqués, Aleix. "A Faultless Science." In A Lasting Vision. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197642924.003.0008.

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Abstract This chapter explores the story of Dandin in the Bay of Bengal and Burma through unchartered literary sources. It also problematizes the ambivalent categorization of Dandin’s Sanskrit classic in a cultural landscape dominated by Pali Buddhism. The elusive presence of Dandin’s Mirror in the region is traced in the records of monastic manuscript collections and elite monastic curricula, where it occupies a prominent position. Pali adaptations of the Mirror, mainly Sangharakkhita’s Lucid Poetics and its commentaries, are also examined in connection to local Buddhist scholarship in Pali a
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Green, Thomas A. "Riddle." In Folklore, Cultural Performances, And Popular Entertainments. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195069198.003.0017.

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Abstract In general usage, an act of playful communication in which a party poses a witty question to a respondent who is obligated to offer an apt reply. Folklorists commonly distinguish between a larger class of traditional questions designed to confuse or test a respondent and the riddle per se. The riddle per se is felt to require (1) an (at least) implied question-and-answer structure, (2) a solution reachable through information contained in the question, (3) a basis in the general cultural knowledge of performer and respondents (shared language, worldview, and/ or tropes), and (4) a slo
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Jamison, Stephanie W. "A Sanskrit Riddle in Three Movements: Rig Veda V.84." In Beyond Hatti. Lockwood Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2013116.ch08.

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