Jagatprakasha Malla's Grief for His Bosom Friend: Affection Expressed in Maithili and Newari.

Jagatprakasha Malla, King of Bhaktapur city (r. 1643--1672) was the first author to compose dramas in his mother tongue, Newari (a Tibeto-Burman language), besides Maithili (an Indo-Aryan language), which had been the official court language. His impulse of literary creation in his mother tongue see...

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Publicado en:Asian Ethnology Vol. 85; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Autor principal: Kitada, Makoto
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Publicado: Nanzan University 2026
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