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Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

Seven Hundred Elegant Verses

Govardhana
Hardy, Friedhelm

Hardcover

Series: Clay Sanskrit Library, Book 32

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral PoetrySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0814736874
ISBN13: 9780814736876
Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
Published: Oct 31 2009
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.50
Language: English

When Go-várdhana composed his Seven Hundred Elegant Verses in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go-várdhana wished to reflect and appeal to a sophisticated culture. These poems each consist of a single stanza, almost as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotion, though the favorite topic is love in all its aspects.

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