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Filosofi & religion

Theft of a Tree

Nandi Timmana

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A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire. Legend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed Theft of a Tree, or Prijtpaharaamu, which he based on a popular millennium-old tale, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husbands affections. Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the prijta, a wish-granting tree, from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna does so to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, Krishna plants the tree for Satyabhamabut she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness. The poems narrative unity, which was unprecedented in the literary tradition, prefigures the modern Telugu novel. Theft of a Tree is presented here in the Telugu script alongside the first English translation.
  • Författare: Nandi Timmana
  • Illustratör: 1 illus
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780674245891
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 544
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-02-08
  • Översättare: Velcheru Narayana Rao Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
  • Förlag: Harvard University Press