Subhashitavali

Publisher:
Penguin Random House
| Author:
Haksar, A.N.D. (Tr.)
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
Haksar, A.N.D. (Tr.)
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

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Features miniature verses from classical Sanskrit. This anthology compiled by Vallabhadeva in circa fifteenth-century Kashmir, offers a rich variety of erotic poetry and a wealth of lyrical and gnomic verse. One section is given to earthy humour and cynical satire.

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Features miniature verses from classical Sanskrit. This anthology compiled by Vallabhadeva in circa fifteenth-century Kashmir, offers a rich variety of erotic poetry and a wealth of lyrical and gnomic verse. One section is given to earthy humour and cynical satire.

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Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar was born in central India and educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford. A well-known translator of Sanskrit classics, he has also had a distinguished career as a diplomat, serving as Indian high commissioner to Kenya and the Seychelles, minister to the United States and ambassador to Portugal and Yugoslavia. His translations from the Sanskrit include The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays, Hitopadesa, Tales of the Ten Princes, Simhasana Dvatrimsika and Subhashitavali, all published as Penguin Classics. He has also compiled A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry.

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