The Seduction of Shiva: Tales of Life and Love
Kshemendra, A.N.D. Haksar
The god Shiva is utterly seduced by Mohini, the enchanting female form assumed by the god Vishnu during the churning of the ocean for nectar. A barber employs wit and wile and rumours of witchcraft to win his wife back from the lustful attentions of their king. The celestial nymph Urvashi curses the Pandava prince Arjuna when he rejects her sexual advances. A woman caught in adultery befools her elders with a religious ritual. A man with a disagreeable missing wife insists nevertheless that she be recovered by his ruler who has a similar problem. Refined, colloquial, romantic, cynical, satirical by turns, these stories of erotic love, elegantly translated from the Sanskrit classics, make a sustained argument for the secular ends of life of desire tempered with discrimination and pleasure with restraint.
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
Penguin
Language:
english
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
0143415409
ISBN 13:
9780143415404
File:
EPUB, 460 KB
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english, 2014
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