GathasaptashatI

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      Ancient Love Poems
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Hala's GathasaptashatI has been beautifully rendered into tamil.
The translator employs tamil sangam akam poetry ("Poems of Interior
Landscape) as the model to translate.

mu. ku. jakannAtarAjA, kAtA captacatI, vicuvacAn^ti patippakam,
Rajapalayam, 1983, 650 p.


Comparisons between ancient prakrit & tamil poems:

1) D. Nadarajah, Love in Sanskrit & Tamil literature:
a study of characters and nature, 200B.C. to A.D. 500
M. Banarsidass, 1994, 333 p.

2) K. S. Srinivasan, Love poems of anient India:
an anthology of songs in Prakrit, tamil and sanskrit, New Delhi, 1987, 110 p.

3) G. L. Hart, The relationship between classical Sanskrit & tamil literature.

4) T. Takahashi, Tamil love poetry and poetics,
E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1995 225 p.


N. Ganesan
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