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100			_aTimmana, Nandi _919493
245			_aTheft of a tree: a tale by the court poet of the Vijayanagara empire
260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2024
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440			_aNine jewels from the Murty classical library of India _919510
520			_aLegend 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.
700			_aKamath, Harshita Mruthinti (tr.) _919494
700			_aRao, Velcheru Narayana _919495
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