Messenger Poems: Kali Dasa, Dhoyi, and Rupa Go+svamin (Hardcover)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9780814757147

Publisher: New York University Press

Publish Date: 6/30/2006

Buy.com Sku: 31232541

Item#: R45YQ7

Dimensions (in Inches) 6.5H x 4.5L x 0.75T

Pages: 440

Sanskrit Messenger poems evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved. The plea includes a lyrical description of the route the messenger will take and the message itself. The first was the Cloud Messenger, composed by Sanskrit's finest poet, Kali-dasa, in the fifth century CE. This inspired the next, the Wind Messenger, composed in praise of King Lak-shmana-sena of Gauda (Bengal) in the twelfth century by Dhoyi, one of his court poets. Numerous more followed, including the third in the CSL selection, the sixteenth-century Swan Messenger, composed in Bengal by Rupa Go-svamin, a devotee of Krishna.

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