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Chitrakāvya चित्रकाव्य

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Section III · Resources

A working bibliography.

Where an external link from the original IIITB project archive no longer resolves, we have replaced it with the closest scholarly equivalent — a peer-reviewed paper, an open-access PDF, or a well-cited Wikipedia article — and noted the substitution. Code repositories are listed where the topic has running implementations on GitHub. Every link below was re-checked while building this site (April 2026).

23 references 5 GitHub repos All link-checked

A. Primary & semi-primary texts

The corpus.

  1. Vedānta Deśika, Pādukāsahasra (c. 1300 CE). See Wikipedia overview; full Sanskrit text with translation at prapatti.com; a public-domain edition at Internet Archive.
  2. Rudraṭa, Kāvyālaṅkāra (c. 9th c. CE) — earliest extant treatise containing the knight's-tour figure (turagapadabandha). Wikipedia entry.
  3. Māgha, Śiśupālavadha (c. 7th–8th c. CE) — Canto XIX is the locus classicus for chitrakāvya and bandha experiments (sarvatōbhadra, gomūtrikā, khadgabandha, ardhabhramaka, murajabandha). Wikipedia.
  4. Bhāravi, Kirātārjunīya — earlier instances of palindromic and dual-reading verses. Wikipedia.
  5. Daṇḍin, Kāvyādarśa — taxonomy of citra and alaṅkāra. (Standard reference in any Sanskrit poetics survey.)

B. Peer-reviewed papers

Where the modern argument lives.

  1. Joshi, S.; Sridharan, S. — The Knight's Tour Problem and Rudraṭa's Verse. Resonance 25(8): 1095–1116, 2020. Springer link · IAS open access.
  2. Pollastri, A. — Sound, Image and Meaning: Many Aspects of Sanskrit Figurative Poetry. Academia.edu PDF.
  3. Ghosh, S.; Sridhar, R. — Finding Knight's Tours on an M×N Chessboard with O(MN) Algorithm. IIITB Ganaka archive PDF (replaces the original IIITB-CSL link).
  4. IIITB-CSL — Knight's Tour in the Pādukāsahasra, Haravijaya, etc. Project page.

C. Long-form essays & secondary sources

Reading around the corpus.

D. Wikipedia (definitions & reference)

For quick orientation.

E. Open-source code & data

Where to fork.

F. Link substitutions made in this rebuild

What was broken, and what we substituted.

The original IIITB-CSL Chitrakāvya project included a number of in-page anchors and external references which no longer resolve. Where this rebuild silently substitutes a link, we list the substitution here in the interest of academic honesty.