Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University.Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

One of the merits of many essays in the volume is that their authors carefully read the works they had chosen for study. This might seem to be an obvious prerequisite, and yet there are histories of...literature that do not fulfill this condition. The book is full of quotations both in the original language and in translation (though one might wish to encounter less mistakes in theSanskrit), accompanied by insightful and minute analyses. Lawrence McCrea's closing paragraph of his essay...contains an important methodological observation, which has been put into practice in some of the best essays in the volume: "It is essential that we attempt to make sense of each poem as a unique object in its own right, which, while it may in some cases be usefully elucidated through terms and categories drawn from either western or indigenous critical traditions, can never simply be uncritically reduced to them" (p. 140).

• I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE; IV. THE SONS OF BANA; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS

Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University.Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

One of the merits of many essays in the volume is that their authors carefully read the works they had chosen for study. This might seem to be an obvious prerequisite, and yet there are histories of...literature that do not fulfill this condition. The book is full of quotations both in the original language and in translation (though one might wish to encounter less mistakes in theSanskrit), accompanied by insightful and minute analyses. Lawrence McCrea's closing paragraph of his essay...contains an important methodological observation, which has been put into practice in some of the best essays in the volume: "It is essential that we attempt to make sense of each poem as a unique object in its own right, which, while it may in some cases be usefully elucidated through terms and categories drawn from either western or indigenous critical traditions, can never simply be uncritically reduced to them" (p. 140).

• I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE; IV. THE SONS OF BANA; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS

Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University.Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

One of the merits of many essays in the volume is that their authors carefully read the works they had chosen for study. This might seem to be an obvious prerequisite, and yet there are histories of...literature that do not fulfill this condition. The book is full of quotations both in the original language and in translation (though one might wish to encounter less mistakes in theSanskrit), accompanied by insightful and minute analyses. Lawrence McCrea's closing paragraph of his essay...contains an important methodological observation, which has been put into practice in some of the best essays in the volume: "It is essential that we attempt to make sense of each poem as a unique object in its own right, which, while it may in some cases be usefully elucidated through terms and categories drawn from either western or indigenous critical traditions, can never simply be uncritically reduced to them" (p. 140).

• I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE; IV. THE SONS OF BANA; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS