The volume deals especially with Indian literatures (Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi and Bengali). Like in the previous year it also includes papers on other literatures (Tibetan, Korean and Czech) with an international participation (6 Czech authors, 6 foreign authors).

Contents:

• Giuliano Boccali: The relation between Itihasa and Kavya: some preliminary results
• Barbara Grabowska: Gods’ gardens of love in the medieval poetry of Bengal
• Martin Hříbek: Rama’s inventory of flowers for Durga worship according to the Krttivasi Ramayana
• Bernhard Kölver - Guido Pellegrini: Of lovers, bees, and buffaloes: techniques of encoding in classical Indian poetry
• Dagmar Marková: Repulsive animals as symbols in the Hindi Anti-Story
• Cinzia Pieruccini: Landscapes of feelings: addressing nature in search of the beloved (Nalopakhyana, Ramayana, Vikramorvasiya)
• Anna Trynkowska: The description of the ocean coast near Dvaravati in Magha’s Sisupalavadha
• Jaroslav Vacek: Old Tamil literary formulae connected with mullai (2. mullai as attribute, complex phrases, anthropomorphic contexts)
• Gyula Wojtilla: Erotic animation of nature apropos of Ragavibhaga ’Classification of Passions’ in chapter five of Ksemendra’s Samayamatrka
• Daniel Berounský: Wind horse galloping: on a Tibetan symbol connected with nature
• Miriam Löwensteinová: The role of nature in the oldest Korean literature
• Petr Holman: Ear of grain in the work of Otokar Březina

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