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Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif; Christopher Shackle
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this collection of short Sufi verses, originally composed for musical performance, the poet creates a vast imaginative world of interlocking references to traditional Islamic ...Show more
Selected Ghazals and Other Poems by Mir Taqi Mir; Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in the Urdu language. His massive output--six divans--was produced in Delhi and Lucknow during the high tide of Urdu literary culture.Selected Ghazals and Other Poems offers a comprehensive collection of Mir's finest ghaz ...Show more
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah; Christopher Shackle (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab, in present-day Pakistan, Bullhe Shah drew profoundly upon Sufi mysticism in his writings. His lyrics, famous for their vivid style and outspoken denunciation of artificial religious ...Show more
The Killing of Shishupala by Magha; Paul Dundas
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
Magha's The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahākāvya, or great poem. This adaptation from the epic Mahābhārata tells the story of Shishupala, who disrupts Yudhishthira's coronation by refusing to honor Krishna, the king's pri ...Show more
The Story of Manu by Allasani Peddana; Velcheru Narayana Rao; David Shulman
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
Manucaritramu, or The Story of Manu, by the early sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the imperial culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It is the story of Svarochisha M ...Show more
Therigatha - Poems of the First Buddhist Women by Charles Hallisey (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Murty Classical Library of India Ser.
The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were therīs, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of their religious achievements. The poems they left behi ...Show more
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