D&#257;modaraguptaviracita&#7747; Ku&#7789;&#7789;an&#299;matam : The Bawd's Counsel
Subtitle: Being an Eighth-Century Verse Novel in Sanskrit
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9789069801582
Description: A verse-novel about eighth-century urban life in Northern India. Instead of the gods, sages and heroes of legend that people the Sanskrit literary epics, here gurus, princes and merchants jostle upon the streets of Benares, Patna and in the gardens of Mount Abu with bawds, prostitutes, rakes and rustics, and they are shown grappling with matters of life, death, love, lovelessness and livelihood.