The Emperor of the Sorcerers (Volume 2)

Budhasvamin

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 38
• Volume Two continues this fast-paced tale of mystery and sorcery up to canto 28. Nara-váhana-datta's epic quest to become the human emperor of the sor... Lees meer

Love Lyrics

Amaru, Bhartri Hari

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 45
• The short lyric poem appears with great frequency in Sanskrit collections and displays a wide range of themes. Bhartri-hari is the most famous compose... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 2)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 50
• In India's great epic Maha-bhárata , the eighth book, "Karna,"; recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general o... Lees meer

Friendly Advice by Narayana and King Vikrama's Adventures

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 9
• Naráyana's best-seller gives its reader much more than "Friendly Advice." In one handy collection--closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or ... Lees meer

Princess Kadambari, Volume One

Bana

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 7
• No Sanskrit poet is more interesting, original, or greater than Bana. His prose poem Princess Kadámbari is his supreme achievement. His patron, King H... Lees meer

Ramayana Book Two

Valmiki

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 14
• The king decides to abdicate in favor of Rama; but just as the celebrations reach their climax, a court intrigue forces Rama and Sita into fourteen ye... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Seven (Volume 1)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 61
• After Bhishma is cut down at the end of the previous book of the Maha-bhárata , the book which bears his name, Duryódhana selects Drona as leader of h... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Four

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 49
• The Book of Viráta details the Pándavas' 13th year in exile, when they live disguised in King Viráta's court. They suffer the humiliation of becoming ... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Three (Volume 4)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 34
• "Slender lady, I came out with you to gather fruit. I got a pain in my head and fell asleep in your lap. Then I saw a terrible darkness and a mighty p... Lees meer

Rama Beyond Price

Murari

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 36
• Rama Beyond Price , a dramatized remake of the Ramáyana , is one of the most challenging pieces of Sanskrit poetry to read. Because of its elegant sty... Lees meer

How Urvashi Was Won

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 13
• One of the three surviving plays by Kali dasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won... Lees meer

The Little Clay Cart

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 26
• The "Little Clay Cart" is, for Sanskrit theatre, atypically romantic, funny, and thrilling. This most human of Sanskrit plays is Shakespearian in its ... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Six (Volume 1)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 30
• "Bhishma," the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Maha-bhárata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Káuravas and the Pándav... Lees meer

Maha-bharata Book Six Volume 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 53
• This second half of Bhishma describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the K&#225u... Lees meer

Messenger Poems

Kali Dasa, Dhoyi, Rupa Gosvamin

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 37
• Sanskrit Messenger poems evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message... Lees meer

Life of the Buddha

Ashvaghosa

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 10
• The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya. This is the earliest surviving text ... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 1)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 16
• "The Book of Karna" relates the events of the two dramatic days after the defeat of the great warriors and generals Bhishma and Drona, in which Karna,... Lees meer

Ramayana Book Four

Valmiki

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 20
• Rama goes to the monkey capital of Kishkíndha to seek help in finding Sita, and meets Hánuman, the greatest of the monkey heroes. There are two claima... Lees meer

Gita Govinda

Jayadeva

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 6
• Jayadeva's Gitagovínda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a co... Lees meer

The Clay Sanskrit Library: Poetry

Clay Sanskrit Library

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 59
• Including poetry whose masterful artistry addresses themes such as love, Indian epic and religion with as much aesthetic appeal as thematic, the poetr... Lees meer

Ramayana Book Three

Valmiki

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 15
• The skies darken for the exiles, who have taken refuge in forest hermitages. First one demon, then another, attempts to harm or corrupt them. When the... Lees meer

Mahabharata Book Nine (Volume 1)

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 4
• The Book of Shalya recounts in gory detail the final destruction of the Káurava army and the defeat of its leader, Dur-yódhana. In this first volume h... Lees meer

What Ten Young Men Did

Dandin

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 43
• Each of the ten princes has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the crown-prince. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their expl... Lees meer

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & the Lady Who Shows Her Love

Harsha

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 17
• King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his qu... Lees meer