Overview of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry From The Gathasaptasati Of Satavahana Hala Book

Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise.

• • Book Type :

Poetry

• • Book Binding :

Paperback

• • Language :

English

• • Number of Pages :

120 pages

• • ISBN - 10 :

0143100807

• • The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry From The Gathasaptasati Of Satavahana Hala Published On :

14 Feb 2008

• • Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Poetry Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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