Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
Hala's Sattasai
The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kamasutra.An elegant translation of the Sattasai (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India 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 Pet…
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Weitere Autoren: Tieken, Herman (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7914-9401-1
- EAN: 9780791494011
- Produktnummer: 35072131
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 204'106 KB
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