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The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago
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Oil + Glass
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The Interior Landscape
This classic anthology of translations has long been out of print. The poems come from one of the earliest surviving texts of Tamil poetry, the Kuruntokai, an anthology of love lyrics probably recorded during the first three centuries AD. Seventy-six of these classical poems have here beengiven a modern language and form. In an effort at fidelity to the effect of the images and their placement in the original, Ramanujan has given a visual shape to the poems by typographic devices. An essay on Tamil poetry explains its techniques and enriches the reader's pleasure in these quiet, controlled, yet dramatic poems.
The Ochre Robe
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Two Plays of Ancient India
The Minister's Seal, ascribed to Prince Visakhadatta (6th century), represents another aspect of Indian drama: the semihistorical or political play. Except for two female guards all the characters are male, and love has no place in the plot. Canakya, the Machiavellian minister of King Candragupta, wishes to secure for his master the services of Raksasa, whose astuteness and loyalty had long been devoted to the previous ruler. In a succession of schemes, counterschemes, and subschemes, he achieves his purpose. The twentieth-century reader will find here striking parallels to his own time, in which propaganda, spies, double agents, and political coups are part of the daily news.
