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Pandanus is a biannual peer-reviewed international journal publishing original research papers in English on nature symbolism in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual. It has a regional focus on South Asia but welcomes papers from other regions. The journal is the outcome of the Pandanus project, based at the Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Seminar of Indian Studies, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. Pandanus volumes started coming out in 1998 on an annual basis as a result of co-operation between three Universities ... please click here to read the full text of Pandanus Mission Statement.

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Pandanus 2000: Natural Symbolism in Indian Literatures.

Edited by J. Vacek.

Signeta, Prague 2000, 286 pp.
ISBN 80-902608-2-9

Reviewed by Siegfried Lienhard, in: Indo-Iranian Journal 45, 2002, pp. 283-287.
Reviewed by Gyula Wojtilla, in: Acta Orientalia Hungarica 56, 2003, pp. 101-103.

Volume of 13 workshop papers on various aspects of natural symbolism and semiotic problems, as they are found in classical Indian literatures, esp. Old Tamil Sangam, Classical Sanskrit and Prakrit Kávya, Mediaeval Hindi and Modern Bengali Classics. The workshop was held on May 26-27, 2000 at Charles University. Supported by a grant of the Czech Grant Agency GAČR.

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