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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Heifetz Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the "Purananuru," This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings: Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life by Roy C. Amore Publisher Comments Includes stories about family and social roles and lay and monastic values.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others by A K Ramanujan Publisher Comments How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Puranānūru by George L. Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru.This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C.E... (read more) Your price: $25.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Pancatantra (06 Edition) by Visnu Sarma Publisher Comments Ascribed by legend to the celebrated half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma, the fables of The Pancatantra were first recorded 1,500 years ago but date back to India?s robust oral tradition. Widely translated, they have influenced a vast number of works in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (Penguin Classics) by A N D Haksar Publisher Comments The only edition available of the otherworldy tales from a golden age of Indian civilization In India, Vikramaditya is held up as a model of kingly virtue, and his reign as a golden age of peace and prosperity. Dating from the late thirteenth or early... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre by Paula Richman Publisher Comments For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of Tamil... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $25.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Erotic Love Poems from India: Selections from the Amarushataka by Andrew Schelling Publisher Comments "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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts by Kalidasa Publisher Comments Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone and in performance, The Recognition of Sakuntala... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs of Kabir (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Rabindranath Tagore Publisher Comments The 15th-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Expressed in imagery drawn from common life and the universal experience, Kabir's poems possess a simplicity and cover... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda by Jayadeva Publisher Comments Jayadeva, wandering king of bards Who sing at Padmavati's lotus feet, Was obsessed in his heart By rhythms of the goddess of speech, And he made this lyrical poem From tales of the passionate play When Krishna loved Sri. Jayadeva's... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sanskrit criticism by V K Chari Book News Annotation Presents traditional Indian critical thought in a comparative and modern context, indeed, taking the examples from English literature. Chari (English, Carlton U., Ottawa) bases his analysis on the theory that the aim of literature is emotional... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati by Annamayya Publisher Comments The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the... (read more) List Price $76.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Origin of the Young God Kalidasa's "Kumarasambhava" by Kalidasa Publisher Comments The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa, probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit. The love story of the God and Goddess Shiva and Parvati, who are both lovers and cosmic principles, the poem is a paradigm of the union... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs of the Saints of India by John Stratto Hawley Publisher Comments The verses of the great poets of north India stand at the fount of the Hindi language, and many would say that they also represent its greatest flowering. In addition to their major religious significance for Hindus, these poems treat universal themes... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theater of Memory: Three Plays of Kalidasa by Kalidasa Publisher Comments < P> -- Journal of Asian Studies< /P>... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai by Mirabai Synopsis Mirabai is probably the best-known poet in India today, even though she lived 400 years ago (1498-1593). Her poems of ecstatic praise to Krishna, whom she lovingly calls "The Dark One, " are set to music and sung by schoolchildren, and are frequently... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems from the Sanskrit by John Brough List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the "Ainkurunuru" (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Martha Ann Selby Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Ilanko Atikal List Price $33.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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