Book cover of Early Modern Literatures in North India. The image on the cover shows Balwant Singh seated writing on a camp-bed. It is attributed to Nainsukh, c. 1760.

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Ravishankar, Akshara: Hidden Meanings for World-Weary Princes: Omission as Interpretive Strategy in Theghnāth’s Gītā bhāṣā, in Nagasaki, Hiroko, Horstmann, Monika and Okita, Kiyokazu (Eds.): Early Modern Literatures in North India: Current Research 2022–2024, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025, p. 65–90. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1553.c22775

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Akshara Ravishankar

Hidden Meanings for World-Weary Princes

Omission as Interpretive Strategy in Theghnāth’s Gītā bhāṣā

Akshara Ravishankar is currently an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University in Belgium. Her current research focuses on the interpretive histories of the Bhagavad Gita in North India and on exegetical writings in Sanskrit and early Hindi in the period between 1400-1800 CE.