Three satires / Nīlakaṇṭha, Kṣemendra & Bhallaṭa ; edited and translated by Somadeva Vasudeva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, active 17th century.

Contributor:

Vasudeva, Somadeva.

Series:

Clay Sanskrit library

The Clay Sanskrit library

Standardized Title:

Kaliviḍambana. English & Sanskrit

Language:

English

Sanskrit

Physical Description:

403 pages ; 17 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2005.

Language Note:

In English and Sanskrit; includes translations from Sanskrit.

Summary:

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 quackery bring up the rear. What's this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing.

Contents:

Bhallata's The hundred allegories

Kshemendra's The grace of guile

Nilakantha's Mockery of the Kali era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Kṣemaśarma, 11th century. Kalāvilāsa. English & Sanskrit.

Bhallaṭa, active 9th century. Bhallaṭaśataka. English & Sanskrit

ISBN:

0814788149

OCLC:

57236233