Literary studies of India's epic traditions have long focused on the Sanskrit classics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, thereby excluding works in Tamil. Now, the eminent poet R. Parthasarathy offers a memorable verse translation of the renowned Tamil poem the Cilappatikaram, or The Tale of the Anklet, one of the world's masterpieces and India's finest epic in a language other than Sanskrit.
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Literary studies of India's epic traditions have long focused on the Sanskrit classics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, thereby excluding works in Tamil. Now, the eminent poet R. Parthasarathy offers a memorable verse translation of the renowned Tamil poem the Cilappatikaram, or The Tale of the Anklet, one of the world's masterpieces and India's finest epic in a language other than Sanskrit.
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Good in Good jacket. Jacket is sunned and lightly worn. Spine is sunned and shaken, but secure. Cover edges are worn and sunned. Fore edge is lightly foxed. Inserted inside front fly leaves is publisher's Review Copy slip. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. An Epic of South India. 8vo. xx, 426 pp. Bound in full gray cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and map. Glossary, bibliography and index. Very Good+, minor fading to extremities of binding, otherwise, crisp copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear to extremities.