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