01423nam a22001937a 4500 0 20260518123410.0 9780674295933 JEW N Timmana, Nandi 19493 Theft of a tree: a tale by the court poet of the Vijayanagara empire London Harvard University Press 2024 186200 Nine jewels from the Murty classical library of India 19510 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. 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. Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti (tr.) 19494 Rao, Velcheru Narayana 19495 B 0 0 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-05-18 0 JEW N 186200 2026-05-18 2026-05-18 B 360997 360997