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100			_aHalas
245			_aHala's Sattasai (Gatha Saptasati in Prakrit): Poems of Life and Love in Ancient India
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aDelhi _bMotilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd _c2014
300			_a212
500			_aAn 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.
650			_aLove poetry Prakrit
650			_aPrakrit poetry
650			_aSanskrit poetry
650			_aGathasaptasat Hala
650			_aHala
700			_aPeter Khoroche
700			_aHerman Tieken
942			_cBK