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The Story of Manu (Murty Classical Library of India)

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Description for The Story of Manu (Murty Classical Library of India) Hardcover. The Story of Manu, by 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 a book about kingship at the time of Krishnadevaraya, who was a close friend and patron of the poet. Series: Murty Classical Library of India. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 37. Weight in Grams: 768.

The literary jewel of Telegu civilization, translated for the first time into any language.

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 Manu, who ruled over the previous cosmic age and who serves here as prototype for the first human being. Peddana explores the dramatic displacements, imaginative projections, and intricate workings of desire necessary for Manu’s birth and formation. The Story ... Read more is also a book about kingship and its exigencies at the time of Krishnadevaraya, the most powerful of the Vijayanagara rulers, who was a close friend and patron of the poet.

The Story of Manu, presented in the Telugu script alongside the first translation into any language, is a true masterpiece of early modern south Indian literature.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Series
Murty Classical Library of India
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674427761
SKU
V9780674427761
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Allasani Peddana
Velcheru Narayana Rao is the Krishnadevaraya Emeritus Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Reviews for The Story of Manu (Murty Classical Library of India)
Eloquently outlining Peddana’s groundbreaking innovations and his acute awareness of himself as an innovator, the terrific introduction by the translators Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman makes the point that: ‘We might think of Peddana, like Dante, as the epitome of an entire civilizational moment.’
Neel Mukherjee
New Statesman
Throbs with worldliness in its vivacious medley of ... Read more

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