Editor/s Preface Lidia Sudyka Preface Jaroslav Vacek KALIDASA/S OEUVRE Humanising nature - a study in the imagery of Kalidasa Rajendran Chettiarthodi The loving creeper and the tree: Kalidasa, botany and ancient spells Cinzia Pieruccini Love and ascetics in the Mahabharata as compared to Uma and Siva story from the Kumarasambhava Iwona Milewska Kissing in kavya, with special reference to Kalidasa/s Kumarasambhava David Smith The lament of Rati Mariola Pigoniowa The sixteenth sarga of Kalidasa/s Raghuvamsa Anna Bonisoli Alquatti DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OCEAN A lexical study of the terms for the sea in the Ramayana and in the Raghuvamsa Tiziana Pontillo The sea in ancient India/s literary landscape: Pravarasena/s Setubandha II, 1-36 Giuliano Boccali Sea images in the Bhattikavya with special reference to its sarga XIII Lidia Sudyka SANSKRIT PROSE From Dasakumaracarita II: how Sleeping Beauty stole the heart of the Thieving Prince Anna Trynkowska BUDDHIST LITERATURE Love as an example for /skill in means/ in Buddhist poetic literature Camillo Formigatti The apsaras-es/ image in the Pali Buddhist canon Paola M. Rossi RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURES The transoformation of nature in the aesthetics of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Mimma Congedo Love and nature in the Moksopaya Bruno Lo Turco Savouring God: nature, senses, and the taste of the Divine in Indian and Western mystical poetry Daniela Rossella TAMIL AND HINDI LITERATURES Messenger-poems in Tamil poetry Alexander Dubyanskiy Bhumi-bhusana or how nature should be described. A few glimpses into Kesvdas/s Kavi-priya Danuta Stasik SUPPLEMENT Author/s signatures in early Kavya Herman Tieken If you know one thousand sloka-s, you are half a poet: on the askara-sloka traditions of Kerala Cezary Galewicz, Lidia Sudyka
