TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halas
AU  - Peter Khoroche 
AU  - Herman Tieken
TI  - Hala's Sattasai (Gatha Saptasati in Prakrit): Poems of Life and Love in Ancient India
SN  - 9788120837010
U1  - 891.3 H1281 H 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd
KW  - Love poetry Prakrit
KW  - Prakrit poetry
KW  - Sanskrit poetry
KW  - Gathasaptasat Hala
KW  - Hala
N1  - An elegant translation of the Sattasai (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, this book 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 Sattasai offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love, the Kamasutra, 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
ER  -