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Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
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The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the K¿mas¿tra. An elegant translation of the Sattasä (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India deals 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 Sattasä offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love the K¿mas¿tra, which presents a…mehr

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The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the K¿mas¿tra. An elegant translation of the Sattasä (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India deals 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 Sattasä offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love the K¿mas¿tra, 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.
Autorenporträt
Peter Khoroche is a former lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of London and has previously translated Ārya Śūra's Jātakamālā. 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 Prakrit texts into Dutch, including the Sattasaī and, most recently, the Kāmasūtra.