| Product Summary | | 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 |
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| | | 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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