Messenger Poems

Informationen zum Autor Kali dasa, Dhoyi, Rupa Gosvamin Klappentext Sanskrit Messenger poems evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved. The plea includes a lyrical description of the route the messenger will take and the message itself. The first was the Cloud Messenger, composed by Sanskrit's finest poet, Kali-dasa, in the fifth century CE. This inspired the next, the Wind Messenger, composed in praise of King Lakshmana-sena of Gauda (Bengal) in the twelfth century by Dhoyi, one of his court poets. Numerous more followed, including the third in the CSL selection, the sixteenth-century Swan Messenger, composed in Bengal by Rupa Go-svamin, a devotee of Krishna. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org Zusammenfassung Includes messenger poems that evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved.

Product details

• Authors: Kali Dasa, Dhoyi, Dhoyi Dhoyi, Rupa Gosvamin, Kali dasa, Kalidasa, James (EDT)/ Gosvamin Mallinson, Rupagosvamini
• Assisted by: James Mallinson (Editor), James Mallinson (Translation)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9780814757147
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-5714-7
• No. of pages: 293
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 165 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies