Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai [PDF]


The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kamasutra.

An elegant translation of the Sattasai (or Seven Hundred), India’s earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India 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 Kāmasūtra, 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.

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Excelsior Editions (10 March 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 079149392X
ISBN-13: 978-0791493922

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