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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Published in:	Asian Ethnology Vol. 85; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14
Main Author:	Kitada, Makoto
Format:	Article
Published:	Nanzan University 2026
Subjects:	Maithili (Indic people) Newar (Nepalese people) Newari drama Emotions Nepal
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