Dear colleagues, I am happy to report the publication of an edited volume on Daṇḍin’s *Mirror of Literature* (*Kāvyādarśaḥ*) and its long-term effects on various literary traditions in Asia:
Yigal Bronner (ed.). *A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Literature*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. South Asia Research. ISBN: 9780197642924. Here is the book abstract: > *A Lasting Vision* is dedicated to the *Mirror of Literature* ( > *Kavyadarsa*), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south > India (c. 700 CE), and to the treatise's remarkable career throughout large > parts of Asia. The *Mirror* was adapted and translated into several > languages spoken on the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and on > the Island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau > far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures it > became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, > often well into the modern era. It also travelled to Burma and Thailand, > where it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and > intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali, where it > contributed to the production of literature in Old Javanese. There is even > reason to believe that it reached China and impacted Chinese literary > culture, although far more peripherally than in other parts of Asia. It > also maintained a prominent position in Sanskrit learned discourses > throughout the Indian subcontinent for at least a millennium. > This multi-authored volume, organized by region and language, is the first > attempt to chart and explain the *Mirror'*s amazing transregional and > multilingual success: what was so unique about this work that might explain > its near-continental conquest, how was it transmitted to and received in > these different environments, and what happened to it whenever it was being > adopted and adapted. The book is *open access* and can be downloaded from the publisher's website <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-lasting-vision-9780197642924?cc=us&lang=en&#> (here <http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780197642924.pdf> is a direct link to the PDF). Andrew
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