《The absent traveller》是一本2010年3月出版的圖書，作者是Hāla，Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
基本介紹
- 中文名：The absent traveller
- 作者：Hāla、Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
- 語言：英語
- 出版時間：2010年3月
- 頁數：120 頁
- ISBN：9780143100805
- 定價：150.00 元
內容簡介
Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at l...(展開全部) Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned commentaries and now, through Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's acclaimed translation of 207 verses from the anthology, readers of English at last have access to its poems. The speakers are mostly women and, whether young or old, married or single, they touch on the subject of sexuality with frankness, sensitivity and, every once in a while, humour, which never ceases to surprise.
