num_pages: 184
description: Corruption in government, hypocrisy in religion, avaricious greed in business: these are some of the targets of Kshemendra's one-thousand-year-old satire. So are superstition and sexual obsession, anomalies in education and a host of other ills of the time. Written by a celebrated name in classical Sanskrit literature, these little-known exposes of eleventh-century society find resonance in India even today.
language: English
title: Kshemendra: Three Satires from Ancient Kashmir