Author: ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN. Translator.
Title: The Chaurapanchasika An Indian Love Lament translated from the Sanskrit by Sir Edwin Arnold
Description: First Edition; Oblong 8vo; pp. 60; numerous colour illustrations, original black cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on front and spine, spine and corners bumped and worn, damage to top of spine, cloth marked, a good copy. n.p., n.d., (London; Kegan Paul, Trench & Taubner & Co. Ltd.;1986) The Story Concerns A Young And Accomplished Brahman Who Fell In Love With The Daughter Of The Maharajah, And Was Therefore Sentenced To Death By The Monarch. The Verses Were Written While He Languished In Prison.

Keywords: indian love poetry literature sanskrit