TY - BOOK AU - Kaul,Shonaleeka TI - Imagining the urban:sanskrit and the city in early India SN - 8178242788 U1 - 307.760954 PY - 2010/// CY - Ranikhet PB - Permanent Black KW - Sanskrit poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - India KW - Social life and customs N1 - Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Jawaharlal Nehru University; Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index; 1. The ambit of the city 2. Within the city 3. Urban characters and their world (masculine and feminine archetypes) 4. . Urban characters and their world (ascetic, brahman, king and the social order) 5. The urban experience 6. Symbolic values and the city 4. ER -