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Tales Of The Ten Princes

Tales Of The Ten Princes

Dandin (Translated by A.N.D. H)
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Dandin’s work as a novelist, poet and pioneering theorist of literary style has secured for him an important place in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived in Kanchi, near present-day Chennai, in the period c. AD 650–750, during the Pallava rule. The Dasa Kumara Charitam is a prose romance recounting the exploits of Prince Rajavahana and his nine companions. Its colourful tales of adventure are notable for their ironic humour, amoral outlook and uninhibited descriptions of contemporary life and manners. A remarkable feature of the stories is the geographical sweep of their action, ranging from present-day Punjab to Kerala, Gujarat to Assam and all the way to the islands of the Indian Ocean. Also remarkable is the rich variety of characters and situations. Dandin vivifies each personage, major and minor, and provides lively accounts of assassinations, executions, dance festivals and royal assemblies, describes at length the training of a courtesan, and even the tools for burgling a house. Even though Tales of the Ten Princes can be enjoyed for its absorbing stories alone, it is also a wonderfully detailed sociological account of an important age in ancient India.

Imprint: India Penguin Classics

Published: Oct/2000

ISBN: 9780143104223

Length : 216 Pages

MRP : ₹250.00

Tales Of The Ten Princes

Dandin (Translated by A.N.D. H)

Dandin’s work as a novelist, poet and pioneering theorist of literary style has secured for him an important place in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived in Kanchi, near present-day Chennai, in the period c. AD 650–750, during the Pallava rule. The Dasa Kumara Charitam is a prose romance recounting the exploits of Prince Rajavahana and his nine companions. Its colourful tales of adventure are notable for their ironic humour, amoral outlook and uninhibited descriptions of contemporary life and manners. A remarkable feature of the stories is the geographical sweep of their action, ranging from present-day Punjab to Kerala, Gujarat to Assam and all the way to the islands of the Indian Ocean. Also remarkable is the rich variety of characters and situations. Dandin vivifies each personage, major and minor, and provides lively accounts of assassinations, executions, dance festivals and royal assemblies, describes at length the training of a courtesan, and even the tools for burgling a house. Even though Tales of the Ten Princes can be enjoyed for its absorbing stories alone, it is also a wonderfully detailed sociological account of an important age in ancient India.

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Dandin (Translated by A.N.D. H)

da??in was born to Viradatta and Gauri in a family of priestly scholarsabout 1300 years ago. He lived in Kanchi, near modern Chennai, duringthe reigns of the Pallava kings Paramesvara Varman I and NarasimhaVarman II in the period c. 650–750 ce.
Da??in has been a celebrated name in classical Sanskrit literatureas a novelist, poet and pioneering literary theorist. His work wasknown as far apart as ninth-century Kashmir to tenth-century SriLanka and thirteenth-century Tibet. Apart from Dasa KumaraCharitam, he authored Kavyadarsa, an epic poem now known onlythrough quotation.

aditya narayan dhairyasheel haksar was born in Gwalior and educatedat the Doon School and the universities of Allahabad and Oxford. Awell-known translator of Sanskrit classics, he has also had adistinguished career as a diplomat, serving as Indian high commissionerto Kenya and the Seychelles, minister to the United States, andambassador to Portugal and Yugoslavia. Haksar’s translations fromthe Sanskrit include Hitopadesa, Simhasana Dvatrimsika, The ShatteredThigh and Other Plays and Subhashitavali, all published as PenguinClassics. He has also compiled A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry.

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