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description: Bihārī is the foremost poet of seventeenth-century Hindi literature.Bihārī was court poet to Jayasingha, ruler of Amber (near Jaipur) in Rajasthan. He wrote in the Braj dialect of Hindi, though he had knowledge of Persian, the language of the Mughal rulers of the time.His best-known work, the Satasaī (meaning seven hundred), consists of around seven hundred couplets written in the Rītikāla tradition. The main theme running through the poems is that of love in all its various aspects - ranging from the carnal to the sublime.Often compared with the Kamasutra, Bihārī's poems detail the courtship rituals, sexual mores, and the exquisite beauty of the women of the times. This superb translation is an excellent introduction to one of the great stylists of classical Indian poetry.
language: English
title: The Satasaī
titlecomplete: The Satasaī
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Penguin Classics