The Hermit and the Love-Thief: Sanskrit poems of Bhartrihari and Bilhana

by Barbara Stoler Miller

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First edition

New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. 12 , 127, 1 ; fine copy in the dust jacket. Bhartrihari, a philosopher of the fifth century, is popularly thought to be a king who retired to the forest upon discovery of his queen's infidelity. His three-part collection of poems, the Śatakatraya, focuses, in turn, on political wisdom, erotic pleasure, and renunciation. Bhartrihari vacillates between worldly experience and ascetic

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