Seven Hundred Elegant Verses
When Go-vardhana composed his Seven Hundred Elegant Verses in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go-vardhana wished to reflect and appeal to a sophisticated culture. These poems each consist of a single stanza, almost as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotion, though the favor…
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Weitere Autoren: Hardy, Friedhelm (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-3687-6
- EAN: 9780814736876
- Produktnummer: 29370246
- Verlag: Clay Sanskrit
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H16.8 cm x B11.5 cm x D2.3 cm 263 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 32
- Gewicht: 263
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