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Theft of a Tree : A Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.
De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024 Available online
De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Timmana, Nandi.
- Series:
- Murty Classical Library of India Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Krishna (Hindu deity)--Poetry.
- Krishna.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- Introduction and notes in English followed by facing pages translations of poems with Telugu on the verso and English on the rectos; Telugu.
- Summary:
- Nandi Timmana's Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods, to appease his wife Satyabhama. This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Theft of a Tree
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES TO THE TRANSLATION
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780674297418
- 0674297415
- 9780674297425
- 0674297423
- OCLC:
- 1416748702
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