Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai

✍ Scribed by Hala

• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781831891975

✦ Synopsis

An elegant translation of theSattasai(or Seven Hundred), India’s earliest collection of lyric poetry,Poems on Life and Love in Ancient Indiadeals 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 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.

✦ Subjects

Poetry