The Seduction Of Shiva: Tales Of Life And Love - Couverture souple

Kshemendra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143415409 ISBN 13 : 9780143415404

Editeur : Penguin Classics India, 2014

Synopsis

The god Shiva is utterly seduced by Mohini, the enchanting female form assumed by the god Vishnu during the churning of the ocean for nectar. A barber employs wit and wile and rumours of witchcraft to win his wife back from the lustful attentions of their king. The celestial nymph Urvashi curses the Pandava prince Arjuna when he rejects her sexual advances. A woman caught in adultery befools her elders with a religious ritual. A man with a disagreeable missing wife insists nevertheless that she be recovered by his ruler who has a similar problem. Refined, colloquial, romantic, cynical, satirical by turns, these stories of erotic love, elegantly translated from the Sanskrit classics, make a sustained argument for the secular ends of life - of desire tempered with discrimination and pleasure with restraint

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar is a well-known translator of Sanskrit classics. Educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford, he was for many years a career diplomat, serving as the Indian high commissioner in Kenya and the Seychelles, minister in the United States and ambassador in Portugal and Yugoslavia. His translations from the Sanskrit include The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays, Tales of the Ten Princes, Hitopadesa, Simhasana Dvatrimsika, Subhashitavali, Kama Sutra and Three Satires from Ancient Kashmir, all published as Penguin Classics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics India
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143415409
• ISBN 13: 9780143415404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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