Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India , livre ebook

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25 mars 2010

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9780791494011

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

199 Mo

An elegant translation of the Sattasaī (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 Sattasaī offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love the Kāmasūtra, 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.
The Poems

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
allegorical verses
poetic fancy
good men and bad
epilogue

variant readings
concordance
bibliography

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

25 mars 2010

EAN13

9780791494011

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

199 Mo

Poetry Hinduism

POEMs ON LifE aNd LOvE iN ANCiENT INdia E5E฀ Hāla’sSattasaī

Translated from the Prakrit and Introduced by Peter KHorocHe andHermAn tIeKen

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POEMS

ON LIFE AND LOVE IN

ANCIENT INDIA

SUNY SERIES IN HINDU STUDIES

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Wendy Doniger, editor

Poems on Life and Love in A N C I E N T I N D I A

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Ha\la’sSattasaê

Translated from the Prakrit and Introduced by

PETER KHOROCHE and HERMAN TIEKEN

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ha\la. [Gathasaptasati. English] Poems on life and love in ancient India : Ha\la’s Sattasaê/ translated from the Prakrit and introduced by Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Hindu studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-9391-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7914-9392-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Love poetry, Prakrit—Translations into English. 2. Prakrit poetry—Translations into English. 3. Ha\la—Translations into English. I. Khoroche, Peter. II. Tieken, Herman Joseph Hugo, 1952– III. Title. IV. Title: Ha\la’s Sattasaê. PK5013.H3G313 2009 891'.3—dc22 2009005435

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C O N T E N T S

acknowledgment introduction

The Poems

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

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allegorical verses poetic fancy good men and bad epilogue

variant readings concordance bibliography

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T

We would like to thank the Gonda Foundation

which generously made it possible for us to

complete our translation in the summer of2006

under the auspices of the International Institute

for Asian Studies in Leiden.

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