Three Satires

Informationen zum Autor Nila kantha, Kshemendra, Bhallata Klappentext Written over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. Nilakantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity. The artistry that beguiles Kshemendra is as varied as human nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start Sanctimonious--really no more than a warm-up among vices--but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it's downhill all the way, as unfaithfulness leads on to fraud, and drunkenness to depravity; deception and qu Zusammenfassung Three different representations of satirical writing are collected here in another fine edition from the bilingual Sanskrit-English series published by NYUP.

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• Authors: Bhallata, Bhallata Bhallata, Nila Kantha, Nila Kantha Kantha, Kshemendra, Kshemendra Kshemendra, Kantha Nila, Nila Kantha, Nilakantha, Somadeva Vasudeva, Somadeva (EDT)/ Nilakantha/ Ksemendra/ B Vasudeva
• Assisted by: Somadeva Vasudeva (Editor), Somadeva Vasudeva (Translation)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780814788141
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8814-1
• No. of pages: 403
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 165 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies