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Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India : Hāla's Sattasaī.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Hindu StudiesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791494011
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poems on Life and Love in Ancient IndiaDDC classification:
  • 891/.3
LOC classification:
  • PK5013.H3 -- G313 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Poems on Life and Love in A N C I E N T I N D I A -- 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 -- A llegorical Verses -- Poetic Fancy -- Good Men and Bad -- Epilogue -- Variant Readings -- Concordance of Verses in Weber's Edition and thei Translation -- Bibliography.
Summary: The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.
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Intro -- Poems on Life and Love in A N C I E N T I N D I A -- 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 -- A llegorical Verses -- Poetic Fancy -- Good Men and Bad -- Epilogue -- Variant Readings -- Concordance of Verses in Weber's Edition and thei Translation -- Bibliography.

The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.

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