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Love Lyrics

Amaruhari, BhartriBailey, Greg(Translated by)Bilhana(Translated by)Gombrich, Richard F.(Edited and translated by)
Part of the Clay Sanskrit Library series
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The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes.

Bhartri·hari is the most famous composer. Ámaru and Bílhana also offer excellent examples. This anthology of the Love Lyrics of three Indian poets conjures up an atmosphere of love both sensual and social, ever in tension with love's rejection or repression.

The flavor of all these poems- Ámaru’s seventh-century C.E. “Hundred Poems,” Bhartri·hari's anthology “Love, Politics, Disenchantment,” from the fourth century, and Bílhana's eleventh-century “Fifty Stanzas of a Thief”—is the universalized aesthetic experience of love. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC FoundationFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

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Product Details
New York University Press
0814799388 / 9780814799383
Hardback
891.21
01/02/2005
United States
327 pages
102 x 152 mm, 249 grams