By Peter Khoroche,Herman Tieken
An dependent translation of the Sattasaī (or Seven Hundred), India’s earliest number of lyric poetry, Poems on existence and Love in old India bargains with love in its many points. generally narrated via ladies, the poems show the realm of neighborhood Indian village lifestyles someday among the 3rd and 5th centuries. The Sattasaī bargains a extra practical counterpart to that infamous theoretical treatise on love the Kāmasūtra, which provides a sophisticated and calculating milieu. Translators Peter Khoroche and Herman Tieken introduce the most beneficial properties of the paintings in its personal language and time. for contemporary readers, those brief, self-contained poems are a deal with: the emotions they depict stay affecting and modern whereas delivering a window right into a global lengthy past.
“These self-contained couplets are as horny as they're delicate; they're energetic and playful, depression and haunting, usually very humorous, and continuously startling.” — Lee Siegel, writer of affection in a useless Language
Peter Khoroche is a former lecturer in Sanskrit on the college of London and has formerly translated Ārya Śūra’s Jātakamālā.
Herman Tieken is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Tamil on the Kern Institute, college of Leiden, within the Netherlands. He has translated a number of Tamil, Sanskrit, and Prakrit texts into Dutch, together with the Sattasaī and, so much lately, the Kāmasūtra.
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