About the Book: Inti The Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry The Sena Salon of
Bengal and Beyond
At the turn of the twelfth century into the thirteenth, at the court of King
Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes as a
new social scope enlarged and enriched high literature. Courtly and
pastoral,rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted each other,
resulting in acommingling of high and low styles. A literary salon in what is
now Bangladesh, at the eastern extreme of the nexus of regional courtly cultures
that defined that age, seems to have implicitly reformulated its entire literary
system in the context of the