What Ten Young Men Did (Clay Sanskrit Library)
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The Clay Sanskrit Library will consist of 100 major works of classical literature.
Each book in the Clay Sanskrit Library is published in the original Sanskrit, in Roman script, on the left-hand page, and in English translation on the right. Twenty-seven leading scholars from eight countries are cooperating to produce fresh new translations that combine readability and accuracy.
The projected list of Clay Sanskrit Library volumes will include all books of the two Indian epics: the Ramáyana and the Maha•bhárata, as well as a rich selection of classical Indian literature (Kavya). Each book will be published in a jacketed hardcover edition, in a compact 4.5" x 6.5" format, designed to bring the great literature of India to the general public, scholars, and students.
Richard F. Gombrich is the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University and the author of On Being Sanskritic and The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara.
What Ten Young Men Did by Dandin Edited and translated by Isabelle Onians
Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent. Commentators have lambasted Dandin's heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction.
What Ten Young Men Did is a coming-of-age novel from the seventh century CE. In combat and in the bedroom, ten individuals juggle virtue and vice on their heroic progress from adolescence to maturity. Dandin's work is autobiographical in two senses: each of the young men narrates their personal experiences, while the author could not have written with such confident realism had he not had many of the same picaresque adventures in his native South India and beyond.
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What Ten Young Men Did (Clay Sanskrit Library),Dandin,Isabelle Onians,New York University Press,0814762069,Ancient, Classical & Medieval,Fiction - General,General,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics
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