Hala's Sattasai (Gatha Saptasati in Prakrit): Poems of Life and Love in Ancient India

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Halas

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 212ISBN:

9788120837010

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DDC classification:

891.3 H1281 H 101503

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Ubhayabharati Sanskrit	891.3 H1281 H 101503 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	101503

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.

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