PRASAD Jayshankar (10. 1. 1889, Banoras—15. 11. 1937, hamon jo), navisandai hindu. Ba zaboni hindi menavisht. Prasad dar inkishofi nazm va dramaturgiyai hindi sahmi arzandae dorad. U yake az ideologhoi raviyai romantikii simvolisti dar adabiyoti Hinduston (solhoi 20—30) meboshad. Dar ejodiyoti Prasad masalahoi neki va badi, inson va tabiat, khirad va hissiyot mavqei muhim dorand; navisanda in masoilro az nuqtai nazari akhloqi dini va falsafi sharh dodaast. Prasad hama guna dinhoro rad namuda, ishqro tavsifu tarannum mekard va dini yagona mehisobid. Dar ejodiyoti Prasad yak ruhiyai yasu noumedi — anjomi fojiaangezi voqeaho joy dorad, ki on dar natijai durust dark nakardani mabda va mohiyati zulmu badkirdoriho cap zadaast. Dar pesahoi Prasad asosan hayoti voqei inikos yoftaast. Dramahoi psikhologii Prasad dar asosi syujethoi qadimii hindi ejod shudaand: «Ajatashatru» (1922), «Skandagupta» (1928), «Chandragupta» (1931) va gayra.
Os.: Shinvai sang (Hikoya), «Tojikistoni Soveti», 1969, 25 oktyabr.
Ad.: Potabenko S., Djayshakkar Prasad, dar kit.: Literaturi Indii, m., 1958; Vishnevskaya N. A., Novoe poeticheskoe napravlenie v literature khindi — chkhayavad, dar kit.: Problemi teorii literaturi i estetiki v stranakh Vostoka, M., 1964.