MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHING HOUSE (MLBD) SINCE 1903



The Samdesarasaka of Abdul Rahman: (with Indexes)

by C.M. Mayrhofer


  • Year of Publication: 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 1st
  • No. of Pages: 100
  • Pages: 276
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
  • Sale price ₹ 295.00 Regular price ₹ 295.00

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    This is message poem (dutakavya) in the tradition set by Kalidsa's famous Sanskrit poem Meghaduta, composed in Apabhramsa by a Muslim poet of the thirteenth century. the Nayaika here is a beautiful young woman of Vijayanagara whose beloved husband left her on business and has not returned, and the messenger is a teraveller on his way from Multan to Cambay, a place where coincidentally her lover has gone.

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