The lay of Alha, a saga of Rajput chivalry as sung by minstrels of Northern India,. / partly translated in English ballad metre by the late William Waterfield. With an introduction and abstracts of the untranslated portions, by Sir George Grierson, K.C.I.E.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waterfield, William, translator.

Grierson, George Abraham, Sir, 1851-1941, editor.

Standardized Title:

Ālhakhaṇḍa. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindi literature--Poetry.

Local Subjects:

Hindi literature--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

278 pages, 1 leaf including frontispiece (map) ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] ; [New York, etc.] : Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1923.

Notes:

Preface (biographical sketch of the translator) by Philip G. Waterfield.

Translation of what "may be called the Kanaujī recension [Bundeli Hindi dialect] of the poem ... A portion of this ... appeared in instalments in vols. LXI to LXIII (1875-6) of the Calcutta review, under the name of 'The Nine-Lākh chain or the Maro feud.'"--p. 10.

OCLC:

4383087