The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Hala

The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Hala

120 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

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Reputed to have been compiled by the Satavahana King Hala in the second century CE, this is a celebrated collection of 700 verses in Maharashtri Prakrit, composed in the compact, distilled gatha form. The anthology has attracted several learned co...

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