{"product_id":"three-satires-hardcover","title":"Three Satires - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNila Kantha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKshemendra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBhallata\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Age Ridiculed, \u003c\/i\u003e by N la-kantha, \u003ci\u003eBeguiling Artistry, \u003c\/i\u003e by Kshem ndra, \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Allegories, \u003c\/i\u003e by Bh llata\u003cbr\u003eWritten over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. N la-kantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity.\u003cbr\u003eThe artistry that beguiles Kshem ndra is as varied as human nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start Sanctimonious--really no more than a warm-up among vices--but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it's downhill all the way, as unfaithfulness leads on to fraud, and drunkenness to depravity; deception and quackery bring up the rear. What's this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents three Indian satirists with three different strategies: in the ninth century C.E., Bh llata sought vengeance on his boorish new king by producing vicious sarcastic verse, \"The Hundred Allegories;\" in the eleventh century, Kshem ndra presents himself as a social reformer out to shame the complacent into compliance with Vedic morality; and in the seventeenth century little can redeem the fallen characters N la-kantha portrays, so his duty is simply to warn about the corruption of every social type.\u003cbr\u003eCo-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003eFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: \/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 403\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.4 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757822935328,"sku":"9780814788141","price":41.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/172c234b557146d3cd05a60463a1976f.webp?v=1780112588","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/three-satires-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}