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ANNOUNCING THE CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY DIGITAL EDITIONS! “Literary gold…Here are stories and poems crafted with joy in the art of storytelling and delight in the nuance and patterning of worlds.” —Times Literary Supplement The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership.
FIVE DISCOURSES ON WORLDLY WISDOM Vishnu•sharman Translated by
RÁKSHASA’S RING Visakhá•datta
Translated by Michael Coulson Foreword by Romila Thapar
This play is set just after Alexander’s invasion of India (c. 325 BCE) when the Emperor Chandra Gupta seized the throne and founded the Maurya dynasty. 385 pages | 978-0-8147-1702-8 $19.95 (£16.99)
SEVEN HUNDRED ELEGANT VERSES Go•várdhana
Translated by
MAHA •BHÁRATA III The Forest, Volume 4 Translated by
576 pages | 978-1-4798-7213-8| $19.95 (£16.99)
GITA•GOVÍNDA: LOVE SONGS OF RADHA AND KRISHNA Jaya•deva
Translated by Lee Siegel Foreword by Sudipta Kaviraj
This is a lyrical account of the illicit love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid. The narrative was composed under royal patronage in the twelfth century.
Friedhelm Hardy Composed in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, these poems each consist of a single stanza, as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotions, though love, in all its aspects, is a favorite topic. 352 pages | 978-0-8147-3737-8 $19.95 (£16.99)
William J. Johnson Book III of this great Indian epic covers twelve years of the Pandeva’s exile in the forest, and contains some of the best-known stories in Indian literature, including the Story of Rama. 374 pages | 978-0-8147-4363-8 $19.95 (£16.99)
Patrick Olivelle A king despairs of his idle sons and hires a learned Brahmin to teach them about statecraft. The lessons are disguised as short stories featuring animal protagonists. Many of the narratives have traveled around the world and are known in the West as Aesop’s Fables.
262 pages | 978-0-8147-4079-8 $19.95 (£16.99)
HANDSOME NANDA Ashva•ghosha
Linda Covill When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha’s order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Ashva•ghosha’s “Handsome Nanda” portrays its hero’s spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity and great poetic skill.
Translated by
387 pages | 978-1-4798-2041-2 | $19.95 (£16.99) 48
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