Love Lyrics

Clay Sanskrit Library

by Ámaru, Bhartrihari, Bilhana

The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartri-hari is the most famous composer. �maru and B�lhana also offer excellent examples.
This anthology of the Love Lyrics of three Indian poets conjures up an atmosphere of love both sensual and social, ever in tension with love's rejection or repression. The flavor of all these poems- �maru's seventh-century C.E. "Hundred Poems," Bhartri-hari's anthology "Love, Politics, Disenchantment," from the fourth century, and B�lhana's eleventh-century "Fifty Stanzas of a Thief"--is the universalized aesthetic experience of love.
Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
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Genres: Poetry

327 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2005

Reviews

[Rambling Raconteur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review and readings from Bhartrihari: https://youtu.be/Ezvqe7rd6lo?si=HdDpc...

[Lulu]

Ámaru c. 650-750? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Bhartrhari late 5th (after 485) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Bhartrhari & Bilhana [11th century] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Elizabeth Gunn · Rating 2 out of 5]

*read for university