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Theft of a Tree
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, which he based on a popular millennium-old tale, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections.Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the pārijāta, a wish-granting tree, from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna does so to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, Krishna plants the tree for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness. The poem’s narrative unity, which was unprecedented in the literary tradition, prefigures the modern Telugu novel.Theft of a Tree is presented here in the Telugu script alongside the first English translation.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2022-02-08
- Mått133 x 203 x 31 mm
- Vikt399 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieMurty Classical Library of India
- Antal sidor544
- FörlagHarvard University Press
- ISBN9780674245891
- ÖversättareKamath, Harshita Mruthinti, Narayana Rao, Velcheru