Verlag: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, 2022
ISBN 10: 8195441963 ISBN 13: 9788195441969
Anbieter: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Indien
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Redacted around the seventh century, the Amarusataka is a collection of one hundred love poems that has been admired by South Asian literary communities for more than a millennium. This book introduces readers to the putative organizers of this anthology, the lenses through which these poems have been read, amended, and deployed, and the contexts through which they became authoritative and standardized. This microstudy also considers visual recensions and their roles in the vast transfers of cultural knowledge that transpired in the vernacular millennium. The Amarusataka and the Lives of Indian Love Poems proposes a new way to study South Asian literature and painting as media that jointly forged customs in their own right. In all these ways, this book provides a model for approaching the study of other beloved South Asian texts.