Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India

Hāla's Sattasaī

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.An elegant translation of the Sattasaī (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India deals with love in its many aspects. Mostly narrated by women, the poems reveal the world of local Indian village life sometime between the third and fifth centuries. The Sattasaī offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love the Kāmasūtra, which presents a cosmopolitan and calculating milieu. Translators Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken introduce the main features of the work in its own language and time. For modern readers, these short, self-contained poems are a treat: the sentiments they depict remain affecting and contemporary while providing a window into a world long past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-10
Mått:140 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Excelsior Editions
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791493922
Översättare:Peter Khoroche, Herman Tieken

Utforska kategorier

Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Peter Khoroche is a former lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of London and has previously translated Ārya Śūra's Jātakamālā. Herman Tieken is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Tamil at the Kern Institute, University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He has translated several Tamil, Sanskrit, and Prakrit texts into Dutch, including the Sattasaī and, most recently, the Kāmasūtra.

Recensioner i media

"These self-contained couplets are as sexy as they are tender; they are lively and playful, melancholy and haunting, often very funny, and continually startling." — Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language

Innehållsförteckning

The Poemsinvitationexchanging glanceslovers’ meetingswrong choices and disappointmentsthe go-betweenthe young couplemaking lovethe perfect wifethe brother-in-lawrival wivesthe errant husbandgetting her name wronglovers’ quarrelsthe faithless wifethe abducted wifedeparturethe traveler’s wifethe travelercountry charactersgods and saintsthe god of loveallegorical versespoetic fancygood men and badepiloguevariant readingsconcordancebibliography