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This book is a collection of love poems from classical India. The poems are in Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit, and are grouped according to themes. There are also annotations provided whenever a brief gloss is necessary. more details
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  • A collection of love poems from classical India
  • In Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit
  • Grouped according to themes


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Author Selby
Format Softcover
ISBN 9780195127348
Publication Date 01/06/2008
Publisher USA Oxford University Press
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
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This book is a collection of love poems from classical India. The poems are in Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit, and are grouped according to themes. There are also annotations provided whenever a brief gloss is necessary.

Like red earth and streaming rain, our loving hearts merged all by themselves. Captured in these centuries-old verses are the intoxication of new love, the romance of courtship, and the longing of separated lovers. Here are the voices of older women advising their younger friends, the words of messengers conveying secrets between lovers, and the musings of lovers to themselves. Culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century CE to as late as the eighth, Martha Ann Selby's masterful translations allow the poems to stand on their own in English while still maintaining the flavors of the original verses as reflected in idiom and structure. The book's 200 erotic poems are composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakit, and Sanskrit, and grouped according to themes, with annotations provided whenever a brief gloss is necessary. After opening with several informative essays on the poems and how to read them, their origin, and the languages in which they were composed, the book proceeds with the delicate images, voices, and emotions of the verses themselves.
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