Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies)

223 Pages·2009·1.02 MB·English

by  Peter Khoroche

Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
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Hāla’s
Sattasaī
Translated from the Prakrit and Introduced by
Peter KHorocHe
HermAn tIeKen
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POEMS
ON LIFE AND LOVE IN
ANCIENT INDIA
SUNY SERIES IN HINDU STUDIES
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Wendy Doniger, editor
Poems on Life and Love in
A N C I E N T I N D I A
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Ha\la’s Sattasaê
Translated from the Prakrit and Introduced by
PETER KHOROCHE
and
HERMAN TIEKEN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ha\la.
[Gathasaptasati. English]
Poems on life and love in ancient India : Ha\la’s Sattasaê/
translated from the Prakrit and introduced by Peter
Khoroche and Herman Tieken.
p.cm. — (SUNY series in Hindu studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7914-9391-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-7914-9392-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Love poetry, Prakrit—Translations into English. 2. Prakrit
poetry—Translations into English. 3. Ha\la—Translations
into English. I. Khoroche, Peter. II. Tieken, Herman Joseph
Hugo, 1952– III. Title. IV. Title: Ha\la’s Sattasaê.
PK5013.H3G313 2009
891'.3—dc22
2009005435
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CONTENTS
vii acknowledgment
1 introduction
The Poems
15 invitation
17 exchanging glances
29 lovers’ meetings
39 wrong choices and
disappointments
51 the go-between
55 the young couple
65 making love
83 the perfect wife
87 the brother-in-law
91 rival wives
95 the errant husband
103 getting her name wrong
105 lovers’ quarrels
125 the faithless wife
131 the abducted wife
133 departure
137 the traveler’s wife
153 the traveler
161 country characters
175 gods and saints
179 the god of love
183 allegorical verses
189 poetic fancy
197 good men and bad
201 epilogue
205 variant readings
207 concordance
211 bibliography
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to thank the Gonda Foundation
which generously made it possible for us to
complete our translation in the summer of 2006
under the auspices of the International Institute
for Asian Studies in Leiden.
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