The absent traveller : Prākrit love poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla /

The absent traveller : Prākrit love poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla /

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Author / Creator:Hāla.
Uniform title:Gāthāsaptaśatī. Selections. English & Prakrit
Imprint:New Delhi : Ravi Dayal Publisher : Penguin Books India, 2008.
Description:xiii, 97 pages ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Prakrit languages
Series:Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Subject:
Love poetry, Prakrit.
Love poetry, Prakrit -- Translations into English.
Love poetry, Prakrit.
Translations.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11946687
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Other authors / contributors:Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, 1947-
ISBN:0143100807
9780143100805
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-97).
Reprint. Originally published: 1991.
In Prakrit; translation and prefatory matter in English.
Summary:The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular verse. Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana king Hala in the second century CE, it is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise. --Penguin Books.

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