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Erotic Love Poems from India: 101 Classics on Desire and Passion

By Andrew Schelling

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala
Year
2019
ISBN
1611807115, 9781611807110
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1867289 bytes)
Edition
Kindle
Pages
136\0
Topic
Literature Poetry
Time added
2019-03-18 09:27:56
hinduismIndiaLoveSanskrit

Description

The poets of classical India regarded love as the first and deepest of passions. Translator and scholar Andrew Schelling perfectly encapsulates the history and passion of eighth-century India in this collection. “A single stanza of the poet Amaru,” declared a ninth-century poetry critic, “may provide the taste of love equal to what’s found in whole volumes.” Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka (“One Hundred Poems of Amaru”), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India’s finest collections of love poetry. Legend connects the poetry’s authorship to King Amaru of Kashmir, while present-day scholars generally consider it an anthology of the verses of many poets.

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