Theft of a tree: a tale by the court poet of the Vijayanagara empire (Record no. 360997)
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| control field | 20260518123410.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780674295933 |
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| Classification number | JEW N |
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| Personal name | Timmana, Nandi |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Theft of a tree: a tale by the court poet of the Vijayanagara empire |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year of publication | 2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 186200 |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Nine jewels from the Murty classical library of India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 19510 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Pārijātāpaharaṇamu, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale.<br/><br/>Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the pārijāta for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness.This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti (tr.) |
| 9 (RLIN) | 19494 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rao, Velcheru Narayana |
| 9 (RLIN) | 19495 |
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| Lost status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2026-05-18 | JEW N | 186200 | Books |