Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist whose areas of interest include literature, literary theory, and South Asian intellectual history more generally. He teaches in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dandin's Magic Mirror 2. <"A Mirror and a Handlamp> ": The Way of the Poet-King and the Afterlife of the Mirror in the World of Kannada Literature 3. <"May it Always Be about Adding Beauty to Beauty> ": The Story of the Mirror in Sri Lanka 4. Folding Figures: Tamil Tandi and the New Poetic Language of Ornaments 5. Sanskrit Poetics through Dandin's Looking Glass: An Alternative History 6. Mirror on Fire: An Ardent Reception in Tibet and Mongolia 7. A Faultless Science: Dandin and Dharmadasa in Burma and Bengal 8. The Mirror of the Practice: Indic Models Internalized in the Indonesian Archipelago 9. Two Mirrors, Fleeting Reflections: Traces of Sanskrit Poetics in East Asia ContributorsIndex

At long last, we have a book that does justice to the geographic reach and influence of Daṇḍin's extraordinary irror of Literature. Beyond its undeniable scholarly value, this remarkable edited volume, featuring the work of specialists in almost every region and religious tradition in Asia that Daṇḍin's poetics had an impact, also serves as a model for collaborative scholarship in the Humanities. Lasting Vision, imbued with the spirit of Daṇḍin's intellectual capaciousness and curiosity, offers an open-palmed invitation to follow new paths into the study of literary theory and the world's literatures. It is an invitation worth accepting.