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Author Khoroche, Peter

Title Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India : Hala's Sattasai
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Contents Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- Introduction -- Invitation -- Exchanging Glances -- Lovers� Meetings -- Wrong Choices and Disappointments -- The Go-between -- The Young Couple -- Making Love -- The Perfect Wife -- The Brother-in-law -- Rival Wives -- The Errant Husband -- Getting Her Name Wrong -- Lovers� Quarrels -- The Faithless Wife -- The Abducted Wife -- Departure -- The Traveler�s Wife -- The Traveler -- Country Characters -- Gods and Saints -- The God of Love -- Allegorical Verses
Poetic FancyGood Men and Bad -- Epilogue -- Variant Readings -- Concordance of Verses in Weber's Edition and thei Translation -- Bibliography
Summary Annotation The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kamasutra
Notes Print version record
Subject Hāla -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Hāla fast
Subject Love poetry, Prakrit -- Translations into English
Prakrit poetry -- Translations into English
Love poetry, Prakrit
Prakrit poetry
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Tieken, Herman
ISBN 9780791494011
0791494012
9780791493915
0791493911