Love Lyrics

The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartrihari is the most famous composer. maru and Blhana 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- marus seventh-century C.E. Hundred Poems, Bhartrihari's anthology Love, Politics, Disenchantment, from the fourth century, and Blhana's eleventh-century Fifty Stanzas of a Thiefis the universalized aesthetic experience of love. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org