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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Sanskrit Transliteration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a: A Brief Overview of the Mechanisms of Simultaneity | |
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| The Many Manifestations of Śle&sbdot;a: A Brief Sketch | |
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| What (Little) Is Known About Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| The Anti-Śle&sbdot;a Bias: Romanticism, Orientalism, Nationalism | |
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| Is Śle&sbdot;a “Natural” to Sanskrit? | |
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| Toward a History and Theory of Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| Experimenting With Śle&sbdot;a In Subandhu's Prose Lab | |
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| The Birth of a New Kind of Literature | |
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| The Paintbrush of Imagination: Plot and Description in the V&abar;savadatt&abar; | |
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| Amplifying the World: Subandhu's Alliterative Compounds | |
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| Showcasing Śle&sbdot;a: The Opening Lines of the V&abar;savadatt&abar; | |
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| Teasing the Convention: The Targets of Subandhu's Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| B&abar;$$$a's Laughter and the Response to Subandhu | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Disguise of Language: Śle&sbdot;a Enters The Plot | |
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| K&ibar;cakavadha (Killing K&ibar;caka) by N&ibar;tivarman | |
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| The Elephant in the (Assembly) Room: N&ibar;tivarman's Buildup | |
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| From Smoldering to Eruption: Draupad&ibar;'s Śle&sbdot;a and Its Implications | |
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| Embracing the Subject: Śle&sbdot;a and Selfing | |
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| Embracing Twin Episodes: Śle&sbdot;a and the Refinement of the Epic | |
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| Flowers and Arrows, Milk and Water: Responses to N&ibar;tivarman's Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| Sarasvat&ibar;'s Śle&sbdot;a: Disguise and Identity in Śr&ibar;har&sbdot;a's Nai&sbdot;adhacarita | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Aiming at two Targets: The Early Attempts | |
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| The Mahabalipuram Relief as a Visual Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in: A Lost Work and Its Relic | |
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| Dhana�jaya: The Poet of Two Targets | |
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| Lineages Ornamented and Tainted: On Śle&sbdot;a's Contrastive Capacities | |
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| What Gets Conarrated? Dhana�jaya's Matching Scheme | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and the Aesthetics of Simultaneity | |
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| Why Conarrate the Epics? | |
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| Bringing The Ganges to The Ocean: Kavir&abar;ja and The Apex of Bitextuality | |
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| The Boom of a Śle&sbdot;a Movement | |
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| The Bitextual Movement and the Lexicographical Boom | |
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| Sanskrit Bitextuality in a Vernacular World | |
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| Kavir&abar;ja's Matching of the Sanskrit Epics | |
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| Amplifying Epic Echoes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a as Reading Practice | |
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| The Imagined Śle&sbdot;a Reader: Representations and Instructions | |
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| Things That Can Go Wrong with Śle&sbdot;a: The Theoreticians' Warning | |
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| Seeing Shapes in Clouds: Different Readings of Meghad&ubar;ta 1.14 | |
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| Old Texts, New Reading Methods: The Commentaries on Subandhu | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and Allegory in the Commentaries on the Epic | |
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| Double-Bodied Poet, Double-Bodied Poem: Ravicandra's Reading of Amaru | |
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| The Śle&sbdot;a Paradox | |
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| Theories of, Śle&sbdot;a In Sanskrit Poetics | |
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| Theorizing Ornaments: An Overview of Alamk&abar;raś&abar;stra | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a as a Theoretical Problem | |
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| Speaking Crookedly and Speaking in Puns: Śle&sbdot;a's Role in Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in's Poetics | |
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| Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in's Discovery in Its Context | |
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| Toward A Theory of Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| A Concise History of the Experiments with Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a as a Literary Movement | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and Sheer Virtuosity | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and the Registers of the Self | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and the Refinement of the Epic | |
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| Playing with the Convention: Śle&sbdot;a and Deep Intertextuality | |
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| Śle&sbdot;a and K&abar;vya's Subversive Edge | |
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| Extreme Poetry and Middle-Ground Theory: The Challenges Posed by Śle&sbdot;a | |
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| Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Sanskrit | |
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| Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Telugu | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |