Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist whose areas of interest include literature, literary theory, and South Asian intellectual history more generally. He worked on this volume while teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He now teaches in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta.David Shulman is Professor (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in the languages and cultures of South India.

• Getting the Message: An Introduction to Courier Poetry 1. Reading a Cloud 2. Unbearable Levity: Desire’s Headwinds in Dhoyi’s Breeze Messenger (Pavanadūta) 3. Messaging Affect in Jinasena’s Ascent of Parshva 4. Profitable Poetry: Panegyric Messenger Poetry and Patronage 5. Abudl Rahman's Pretexts 6. "Our Endless and Proper Work": Notes on Reading Sinhala Messenger Poems 7. Tamil Tūtu and a Rāyalasīma Diversion 8. A History of Sandeśa on Stage (and its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century Thanjavur 9. Happily Ever After? Love, Realism, and Parody in The Partridge Messenger 10. Clouds over Mountains, Streams under Ice: The Messenger is Received in Tibet 11. A Journey through Poetry: Rethinking Tanakung’s Wṛttasañcaya 12. The Bat Messenger: The Poetics of Despair in Gurram Jashuva’s The Bat 13. Movement, Space, and Protest: Two Hindi Responses to the Meghadūta 14. Mudgara the Messenger Epilogue: A New Translation of Kalidasa's Meghadūta

Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist whose areas of interest include literature, literary theory, and South Asian intellectual history more generally. He worked on this volume while teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He now teaches in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta.David Shulman is Professor (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in the languages and cultures of South India.

• Getting the Message: An Introduction to Courier Poetry 1. Reading a Cloud 2. Unbearable Levity: Desire’s Headwinds in Dhoyi’s Breeze Messenger (Pavanadūta) 3. Messaging Affect in Jinasena’s Ascent of Parshva 4. Profitable Poetry: Panegyric Messenger Poetry and Patronage 5. Abudl Rahman's Pretexts 6. "Our Endless and Proper Work": Notes on Reading Sinhala Messenger Poems 7. Tamil Tūtu and a Rāyalasīma Diversion 8. A History of Sandeśa on Stage (and its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century Thanjavur 9. Happily Ever After? Love, Realism, and Parody in The Partridge Messenger 10. Clouds over Mountains, Streams under Ice: The Messenger is Received in Tibet 11. A Journey through Poetry: Rethinking Tanakung’s Wṛttasañcaya 12. The Bat Messenger: The Poetics of Despair in Gurram Jashuva’s The Bat 13. Movement, Space, and Protest: Two Hindi Responses to the Meghadūta 14. Mudgara the Messenger Epilogue: A New Translation of Kalidasa's Meghadūta

Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist whose areas of interest include literature, literary theory, and South Asian intellectual history more generally. He worked on this volume while teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He now teaches in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta.David Shulman is Professor (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in the languages and cultures of South India.

• Getting the Message: An Introduction to Courier Poetry 1. Reading a Cloud 2. Unbearable Levity: Desire’s Headwinds in Dhoyi’s Breeze Messenger (Pavanadūta) 3. Messaging Affect in Jinasena’s Ascent of Parshva 4. Profitable Poetry: Panegyric Messenger Poetry and Patronage 5. Abudl Rahman's Pretexts 6. "Our Endless and Proper Work": Notes on Reading Sinhala Messenger Poems 7. Tamil Tūtu and a Rāyalasīma Diversion 8. A History of Sandeśa on Stage (and its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century Thanjavur 9. Happily Ever After? Love, Realism, and Parody in The Partridge Messenger 10. Clouds over Mountains, Streams under Ice: The Messenger is Received in Tibet 11. A Journey through Poetry: Rethinking Tanakung’s Wṛttasañcaya 12. The Bat Messenger: The Poetics of Despair in Gurram Jashuva’s The Bat 13. Movement, Space, and Protest: Two Hindi Responses to the Meghadūta 14. Mudgara the Messenger Epilogue: A New Translation of Kalidasa's Meghadūta