R. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the editor and translator of The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Columbia, 1993).

The book succeeds very well at giving the reader a firm sense of the literary sensibility that informs Sanskrit erotic verse. It has both a breadth of reference and a cosmopolitan spirit. -- Whitney Cox, University of Chicago

• Acknowledgments Introduction Abhinanda That's How I Saw Her Amaru Who Needs the Gods? In a Hundred Places A Taste of Ambrosia Pincers The Bride Anon Lovers' Quarrel The Pledge A Lover's Welcome Regret Stonehearted Feigning Sleep Remorse Walking the Street by Her House The Sheets A Woman Wronged Aubade Like the Wheels of a Chariot The Word An Invitation The Traveler The Devoted Wife The Kingdom's Happiness Hair Wild Nights Thank Offering At the Cremation Ground On a Rainy Day When Winter Comes Jewels The Creaking Bed She Protests Too Much She Doesn't Let Go of Her Pride The Ways of Love A Lover's Word The Hawk A Needle Time Wasted The Scholar's Life Foolish Heart Supreme Bliss Bana In a Corner of the Village Shrine Bhartrhari Wise Men Poets' Excesses The Love Game Hips Fear of Death Desire Alone Adoration of Woman The Poet Speaks to the King Contentment Man's Life Old Age White Flag Bhaskara II Elementary Arithmetic Bhavabhuti The Critic Scorned Bhavakadevi Bitter Harvest Bhoja Scrambling Out of the Water Bilhana Bite Marks In Life After Life All for Love Devagupta Drumbeats Dharmakirti The Way Jagannatha Panditaraja Indra's Heaven Jaghanacapala Wife Kalidasa Flight of the Deer Such Innocent Moves Blessed Sleep Karnotpala The Lamp Kesata The Camel Ksemendra All Eyes on the Door Ksitisa The Red Seal Kumaradasa Alba Kutala Furtive Lovemaking Magha The Art of Poetry Scent Mahodadhi Stop Being Willful Morika Don't Go Murari Hidden Fingernail Marks An Actor in a Farce Rajaputra Parpati Blow Out the Lamp Rajasekhara Her Face Rudrata What the Young Wife Said to the Traveler Sarana Girl Drawing Water from a Well Siddhoka The Empty Road Silabhattarika Then and Now Sonnoka Driven by Passion Sriharsa The Smart Girl In Her Direction Vallana Sea of Shame On the Grass The Essence of Poetry Varaha Poring Over a Book Vidya Hollow Pleasures Complaint The Riverbank Vikatanitamba The Bed A Word of Advice Yogesvara Far from Home When the Rains Come Notes Sources of Poems Bibliography Credits Index of Titles and First Lines Index

R. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the editor and translator of The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Columbia, 1993).

The book succeeds very well at giving the reader a firm sense of the literary sensibility that informs Sanskrit erotic verse. It has both a breadth of reference and a cosmopolitan spirit. -- Whitney Cox, University of Chicago

• Acknowledgments Introduction Abhinanda That's How I Saw Her Amaru Who Needs the Gods? In a Hundred Places A Taste of Ambrosia Pincers The Bride Anon Lovers' Quarrel The Pledge A Lover's Welcome Regret Stonehearted Feigning Sleep Remorse Walking the Street by Her House The Sheets A Woman Wronged Aubade Like the Wheels of a Chariot The Word An Invitation The Traveler The Devoted Wife The Kingdom's Happiness Hair Wild Nights Thank Offering At the Cremation Ground On a Rainy Day When Winter Comes Jewels The Creaking Bed She Protests Too Much She Doesn't Let Go of Her Pride The Ways of Love A Lover's Word The Hawk A Needle Time Wasted The Scholar's Life Foolish Heart Supreme Bliss Bana In a Corner of the Village Shrine Bhartrhari Wise Men Poets' Excesses The Love Game Hips Fear of Death Desire Alone Adoration of Woman The Poet Speaks to the King Contentment Man's Life Old Age White Flag Bhaskara II Elementary Arithmetic Bhavabhuti The Critic Scorned Bhavakadevi Bitter Harvest Bhoja Scrambling Out of the Water Bilhana Bite Marks In Life After Life All for Love Devagupta Drumbeats Dharmakirti The Way Jagannatha Panditaraja Indra's Heaven Jaghanacapala Wife Kalidasa Flight of the Deer Such Innocent Moves Blessed Sleep Karnotpala The Lamp Kesata The Camel Ksemendra All Eyes on the Door Ksitisa The Red Seal Kumaradasa Alba Kutala Furtive Lovemaking Magha The Art of Poetry Scent Mahodadhi Stop Being Willful Morika Don't Go Murari Hidden Fingernail Marks An Actor in a Farce Rajaputra Parpati Blow Out the Lamp Rajasekhara Her Face Rudrata What the Young Wife Said to the Traveler Sarana Girl Drawing Water from a Well Siddhoka The Empty Road Silabhattarika Then and Now Sonnoka Driven by Passion Sriharsa The Smart Girl In Her Direction Vallana Sea of Shame On the Grass The Essence of Poetry Varaha Poring Over a Book Vidya Hollow Pleasures Complaint The Riverbank Vikatanitamba The Bed A Word of Advice Yogesvara Far from Home When the Rains Come Notes Sources of Poems Bibliography Credits Index of Titles and First Lines Index

R. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the editor and translator of The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Columbia, 1993).

The book succeeds very well at giving the reader a firm sense of the literary sensibility that informs Sanskrit erotic verse. It has both a breadth of reference and a cosmopolitan spirit. -- Whitney Cox, University of Chicago

• Acknowledgments Introduction Abhinanda That's How I Saw Her Amaru Who Needs the Gods? In a Hundred Places A Taste of Ambrosia Pincers The Bride Anon Lovers' Quarrel The Pledge A Lover's Welcome Regret Stonehearted Feigning Sleep Remorse Walking the Street by Her House The Sheets A Woman Wronged Aubade Like the Wheels of a Chariot The Word An Invitation The Traveler The Devoted Wife The Kingdom's Happiness Hair Wild Nights Thank Offering At the Cremation Ground On a Rainy Day When Winter Comes Jewels The Creaking Bed She Protests Too Much She Doesn't Let Go of Her Pride The Ways of Love A Lover's Word The Hawk A Needle Time Wasted The Scholar's Life Foolish Heart Supreme Bliss Bana In a Corner of the Village Shrine Bhartrhari Wise Men Poets' Excesses The Love Game Hips Fear of Death Desire Alone Adoration of Woman The Poet Speaks to the King Contentment Man's Life Old Age White Flag Bhaskara II Elementary Arithmetic Bhavabhuti The Critic Scorned Bhavakadevi Bitter Harvest Bhoja Scrambling Out of the Water Bilhana Bite Marks In Life After Life All for Love Devagupta Drumbeats Dharmakirti The Way Jagannatha Panditaraja Indra's Heaven Jaghanacapala Wife Kalidasa Flight of the Deer Such Innocent Moves Blessed Sleep Karnotpala The Lamp Kesata The Camel Ksemendra All Eyes on the Door Ksitisa The Red Seal Kumaradasa Alba Kutala Furtive Lovemaking Magha The Art of Poetry Scent Mahodadhi Stop Being Willful Morika Don't Go Murari Hidden Fingernail Marks An Actor in a Farce Rajaputra Parpati Blow Out the Lamp Rajasekhara Her Face Rudrata What the Young Wife Said to the Traveler Sarana Girl Drawing Water from a Well Siddhoka The Empty Road Silabhattarika Then and Now Sonnoka Driven by Passion Sriharsa The Smart Girl In Her Direction Vallana Sea of Shame On the Grass The Essence of Poetry Varaha Poring Over a Book Vidya Hollow Pleasures Complaint The Riverbank Vikatanitamba The Bed A Word of Advice Yogesvara Far from Home When the Rains Come Notes Sources of Poems Bibliography Credits Index of Titles and First Lines Index