Akhyana was a traditional musical theatre as well as medieval genre of Gujarati poetry and Rajasthani poetry.[1] It was primarily practiced in Gujarat and Rajasthan states of India.
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Akhyana was a traditional musical theatre as well as medieval genre of Gujarati poetry and Rajasthani poetry. It was primarily practiced in Gujarat and...
Guwaliar-namas). Two notable Guwaliar-namas include Gopachala-Akhyana and Qulyat-i-Guwaliari. The Gopachala-Akhyana of Khadagrai exists in several different manuscripts...
characteristics is called a Purana, states Matsya Purana, otherwise it is called Akhyana. These five characteristics are cosmogony describing its theory of primary...
included the story of Samprati in his commentary to the Treasury of Stories (Akhyana Manikosha). In 1204, Malayaprabhasuri, a disciple of Manatungasuri of the...
Gujarati, also "Ukha" in Assamese) is depicted in the 18th century Gujarati Akhyana entitled Okhaharan by Premanand Bhatt. A 1901 Telugu language play titled...
ancient non-Vedic Hindu literature called Gatha, Narashansi, Itihasa, and Akhyana (songs, legends, epics, and stories). In the history of Indian literature...
Lagna-geets are light form of song and music played during marriages. Bhavai and Akhyana are folk musical theatre performed in Gujarat. Classical musicians and...
for his Akhyana compositions. He was born in 1636 at Vadodara in the caste of the Nandora Chaturvanshi Brahmins. In colophons of his Akhyanas, he remarked...
Nakar was a 16th-century Gujarati poet from Gujarat who wrote several Akhyanas. Very little is known about his life as his verses are the only source regarding...
verses and postcanonical prose points to the old Indian narrative form of ākhyāna, which has a fixed wording of the stanzas only, whereas the actual story...
Theatre State/Region Originated Features Exponents Akhyana Gujarat Enactment of religious episodes from Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata by Mana-bhatas...
Pindye, who composed Radha-Madhava-Vilasa Champu and Parnala-Parvata-Grahan-Akhyana. Jayarama had heard about Shahaji's generosity to poets from traveling...
Subhadra Swayamvara Champu. This akhyana contains prose and poetry, which is a significant contribution to Marathi akhyana.This is a Swayamvar Kavya describing...
activities. As Rasas written by Jain monks were a type of narrative poetry, Akhyanas are considered as their literary descendants which reached their glory...
different lists of the Tomara kings: Khadag Rai's history of Gwalior (Gopācala ākhyāna) names 18 Tomara kings, plus Prithvi Pala (who is probably the Chahamana...
certain hymns of the Ṛgveda (which contain dialogues), as well as the Ākhyānas (ballads), Itihāsas ('traditional accounts of past events') and the Purāṇas...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Śāntimāhātmya:kiṁvā sādhu Iyoba hyāceẽ ākhyāna /". Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Printing in Baghdad Online. doi:10.1163/9789004192621...
pleasure). The author has also discussed the poetic form of akhyana, showing how Akhyana was a figure of speech, and it was falsely interpreted as a form...
form – dramatic soliloquy, dialogue and chorus, traditionally known as Akhyana which fact points at the existence of some kind of drama-entertainment...
lively folk dances. The traditional forms of theatre include Bhavai and Akhyana. Before the arrival of talkies, there were several silent films that were...
poetry based on Dhruva, a mythological character, in medieval poetic form, Akhyana in 1948. Parikrama (1955) was his second collection of poems. His children...
17th century poet Khadag Rai of Gwalior, in his renowned work Gopanchala Akhyana mentions Sheopur. According to his account the king of Nareshar Ajay Pal...
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