South Asia – this, according to many, curious mixture of different ethnicities, languages, beliefs, customs, religions and so forth – as always in its development during the centuries has been marked by a deep impulse to spiritual, intellectual, and cultural integrity. The different aspects of this identity (national, ethnic, religious, social) unfold and manifest themselves in a specific way today in the context of a dynamic political, social and economic changes in the countries of the region and throughout the world.

The pilot issue of the electronic journal, devoted to South Asia, provides a platform for the interpretations in various critical perspectives of the complex and manifold manifestations of identity and diversity in this cultural area. It has initiated a dialogue and exchange of ideas between like-minded people, joint together by their common in-depth interest in mythology, philosophy, religion, economy, art and literature of India as a cultural centre of South Asia.

ISSN: 2367-6256

Contents

• From the Editor-in-Chief

  Galina Rousseva-Sokolova

• Из лабиринта на източното провербиално пространство: зоонимът кон в източните пословици

  Valentina Todorova-Marinova

• The Man and the Cosmos according to the ideas of ancient Aryans

  Marga Koutsarova

• Nandadas: The Song of the Black Bee

  Galina Rousseva-Sokolova

• India: What can it teach us?

  Max Müller, translation: Tatyana Evtimova

• Кūṭiyāṭṭam: The Pinnacle in the Tradition of Ritual Theatre

  Rossitsa Boshniashka

• Hindi and Telugu Drama and Theatre after 1960: Western Influence and Experimentation

• Ātmán and the five ways of self realization: the mirror

  Georgina Russeva

• Daśakuśala: on the psychology of the moral conduct in Mahāyāna Buddhism (according to Āryaśūra’s Pāramitāsamāsa)

  Milena Bratoeva

• Three persian dictionaries, compiled in the XVIIth century in India : Farhang-e Jahāngīrī, Borhān-e qāṭeʿ and Farhang-e Rašīdī

  Mario Appen

• The Mytheme of the Eternal Fight between Thunderer and Dragon in the Context of the Indo-aryan and Bulgarian Mythology

  Nikolay Yankov

• Sanskrit Buddhist Literature and its Transformation into Pure Fiction in the Works of Aśvaghoṣa

  Asya Tsvetanova

• Sattvikabhinaya: The Most Hidden Mode of Expression in Traditional Indian Theater and Dance Drama

  Roumiana Damianova

• India – Economic System

  Nako Stefanov

• Transformation and Identification in teyyāṭṭam

  Proletina Robova

• Kālidāsa’s Vikramorvaśīya: Translation of the Prologue and Act I

  Aleksandar Bogdanov

• Mirror of Time – The Eternity of Tibetan Buddhist Literature

  Lyudmila Klassanova