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English

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2012

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Pingali Suranna ,
traduit par Velcheru Narayana Rao , David Shulman

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2012

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

Nombre de lectures

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9780791482155

Langue

English

The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers.

The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
The Demon’s Daughter: A Love Story from South India

1. Prayers

2. The Goose’s Commission

3. Pradyumma Sends a Letter

4. The Goose Interrogates the Parrot

5. The Lovers Meet

Afterword: The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough

Notes
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791482155

Langue

English

Hinduism

The Demon’s Daughter A Love Story from South India

 PingaliS¯uranna  Translated and with an Afterword by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman

The Demon’s Daughter

SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Wendy Doniger, editor

The Demon’s Daughter A Love Story from South India

Pingali Suranna

Translated with an Afterword by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman

State University of New York Press

On the cover is a hand painting on cloth by Teertham Balaji, Kalamkari Artist. From the personal collection of Velcheru Narayana Rao.

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

. Pingali Surana. . [Prabhavatipradyumnamu. English] . The demon’s daughter: a love story from South India / Pingali Suranna; translated . with an introduction by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. p. cm. — (SUNY series in Hindu studies) Translated from Telugu. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791466957 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 0791466965 (pbk: alk. paper) I. Narayanara,uvl¯eVr¯ec1,u2–93.SIIlmhu,aneltiT.III–4919,anDedviDa . IV. Series.

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Accapu buddhiki levagamyamul

There is nothing beyond the grasp of an unfettered mind.

Prabhavati-pradyumnamu 2.109

We dedicate this translation to the memory of our fathers

Velcheru Buchi Narasinga Rao

Dr. Herbert Shulman

Contents

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Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii The Demon’s Daughter: A Love Story from 1 South India Chapter One 3 Chapter Two 21 Chapter Three 33 Chapter Four 49 Chapter Five 65 Afterword: The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough 85 Notes 111 Index 119

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Preface

We have used the Emesco edition by Bommakanti Venkata Sing-aracarya and Balantrapu Nalinikanta Ravu (Vijayavada: M. Sesacalam and Company, 1970; reprinted 1990) as our base text, as it reflects an examination of earlier printed versions and a single manuscript (pre-pared for C. P. Brown in the early nineteenth century). No critical text is available. Theeditio princepsappeared in Madras in 1901 (Cintamani Mudraksara-sala). Purana-panda Mallayya Sastri published another edition, with gloss, in Kakinada in 1913. We have benefited greatly from the superb commentary of Vemparala Suryanarayana Sastri (Vijayavada: Venkatrama Grantha-mala, 1962/63) and from his detailed introduction. As in our earlier translation of theKala-purnodayamu, we have made no attempt to reproduce the metrical form of narrative that is, in fact, a kind of prose. Verses of a particularly lyrical flavor are trans-lated in more poetic format. We have done our best to convey some-thing of the elevated, elegant, and sometimes ironic tone of the origi-nal narrative and also to represent the individualized voices of the characters, as Suranna has fashioned them. Occasionally we have 1 slightly shortened passages that seemed resistant to translation.

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