1st Edition
Lays of Ancient India Selections from Indian Poetry Rendered into English Verse
By Romesh Chunder Dutt
Copyright 2001
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2000. This is Volume III of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Collated in 1894, this is selection of ancient Indian poetry that has been translated into English. They have been chosen for their representation of the genre - the freshness and simplicity of the Vedic Hymns, the sublime and lofty thought of the Upanishads, the unsurpassed beauty of... Read more
Chapter 1. VEDIC HYMNS; Chapter 2. PASSAGES FEOM THE UPANISHADS; Chapter 3. PASSAGES FROM BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES; Chapter 4 EDICTS OF ASOKA; Chapter 5. KÂVYA POETRY; Chapter 6. THE HUNTER AND THE HERO; Appendix TO THE HUNTER AND THE HERO;
Biography
Romesh Chunder Dutt Barrister at Law and of the Indian Civil Service, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
