Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies). Peter Khoroche, Herman Tieken

Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies)



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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Page: 223
ISBN: 0791493911, 9780791493915

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An elegant translation of India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, the Sattasai (or Seven Hundred) deals with love in its many aspects. Mostly narrated by women, the poems reveal the multifaceted and sophisticated 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 Kâmasûtra, 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.

"These self-contained couplets are as sexy as they are tender; they are lively and playful, melancholy and haunting, often very funny, and continually startling." -- Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language

About the Author

Peter Khoroche is a former lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of London and has previously translated Ârya Úûra's Jâtakamâlâ. Herman Tieken is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Tamil at the Kern Institute, University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He has translated several Tamil, Sanskrit, and Prâkrit texts into Dutch, including Vatsyayana, Book 3 of the Kâmasûtra.



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