Hala's Sattasai (Gatha Saptasati in Prakrit): Poems of Life and Love in Ancient India
Khoroche, Peter & Tieken, Herman
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Book ID : 42496
ISBN-10 : 81-208-3701-0 / 8120837010
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-3701-0 / 9788120837010
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2022
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
vii, 212p., Bib., 21 cm. (First Indian Edition pub. in 2014)
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
An elegant translation of the Sattasai (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, this book 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 Sattasai offers a more realistic counterpart to that notorious theoretical treatise on love, the Kamasutra, 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.
