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082			_aCS 891.21 _bHAK
100			_aHaksar, A. N. D. (comp.)
245			_atreasury of Sanskrit poetry : in English translation
260			_aDelhi _bShipra Publications _c2002
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520			_aThis is a comprehensive anthology of Sanskrit poetry in the best English translations available. The first ever of its kind, it brings together excerpts form a full range of original works, translated by over forty distinguished writers including poets and scholars, savants and seers, and two winners of the Nobel prize for literature. Drawing form sacred as well as classic and folk literature, this collection features a wide variety of poetry in translation. It includes nature hymns and mystic utterances; epic narratives and love lyrics; songs and reflections on the human condition; verses devotional and philosophic, heroic and tragic, erotic and satiric; courtly epigrams and inscriptions, and simple poems form the countryside. English translations from Sanskrit have a history of over two centuries. The finest of these renderings have been compiled in this volume by a well-known Sanskritist to present the ancient language's poetic splendour, not through learned discourse, but by letting the poetry speak for itself.
650			_aIFS as an compiler
650			_aIndian Foreign Service
650			_aSanskrit poetry
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