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  | | A Poem at the Right Moment Remembered Verses from Premodern South India (Voices from Asia) by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vlcheru N. Rao, David Dean Shulman Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20849-0, ISBN: 0-520-20849-8 "A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the connection between language and desire. Taken together the catus offer a penetrating critical vision and an understanding of the classical trad ..." |
 | | Classical Telugu Poetry(1st Edition) An Anthology by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Dean Shulman, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vn Rao Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22598-5, ISBN: 0-520-22598-8 "This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the first anthology of classical Telugu poetry in English, gives an overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. Velcheru Narayan ..." |
 | | The Demon's Daughter A Love Story from South India (Suny Series in Hindu Studies) by Pingali Surana, David Dean Shulman, Contributor-Velceru Narayanaravu, Professor Pingali Suranna, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2006 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6696-4, ISBN: 0-7914-6696-5 "This sixteenth-century work has a modern sensibility, presenting characters' inner worlds and understanding love as the fullest realization of the individual.The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overth ..." |
 | | God on the Hill Temple Poems from Tirupati: Temple Poems from Tirupati by Translator-David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, David Dean Shulman, Tallapaka Annamacharya Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press Inc, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518283-5, ISBN: 0-19-518283-9 "If we take the story as seriously as it deserves, we discover that this family was originally linked to the cult of a local goddess, probably in Tallapaka. In fact, Annamayya's grandson, Cina Tirumalacarya, suggests precisely some such " dark" ..." |
 | | How Urvashi was Won(9th Edition) (Clay Sanskrit Library) by David Shulman, Velcheru N. Rao, Kali Dasa, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Velcheru Rao Kalidasa, David Kali Dasa, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, David Dean Shulman Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2009 by Nyu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4111-5, ISBN: 0-8147-4111-8 "One of the three surviving plays by Kali dasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won, like the other two, is a masterpiece of lyricism, subtle characterization, and the working through of a bold theme. How Urvashi Was Won is the story of King Puru ravas and his love for an immortal, the dancer Urvashi, who normally lives in the heaven of the gods but who has come down to ..." |
 | | When God is a Customer(1st Edition) Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others by A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Dean Shulman, David Shulman, Velceru Rao Narayanaravu, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08069-0, ISBN: 0-520-08069-6 "How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night? These South Indian devotional poems show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adop ..." |
 | | The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told by Professor Pingali Suranna, David Dean Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Piṅgaḷi Sūrana, Velceru Rao Narayanaravu, Piṅgaḷi Sūranna, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12597-0, ISBN: 0-231-12597-6 "Composed in the mid-sixteenth century, The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told, could be considered the first novel written in South Asia. Telugu, the language spoken in today's Andhra Pradesh region of southern India, has a classical literary tradition extending over a thousand years. Suranna's masterpiece comes from a period of intense creativity in Telugu, when great poets produced strikingly modern innovations. ..." |
 | | Textures of Time(1st Edition) Writing History in South India 1600-1800 by David Dean Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Velceru Rao Narayanaravu Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Other Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-044-5, ISBN: 1-59051-044-5 "Along with the clock and the railroad, did the British colonists bring the questionable gift of history to India? Is it true that historical consciousness did not exist in India before its conquest by the British at the end of the eighteenth century? Generations of western writers have claimed this to be true; that Indians in pre-colonial times were indifferent to historical fact and approached their past through myth, legend, and story ..." |
 | | Classical Telugu poetry An anthology by Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Hardcover, 418 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-565300-7, ISBN: 0-19-565300-9 "This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the first anthology of classical Telugu poetry in English, gives an overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. Velcheru Narayan ..." |
 | | The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told Suranna, Pingali; Rao, Velcheru Narayana and Shulman, David by Pingali Suranna, David Dean Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Velceru Rao Narayanaravu Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12596-3, ISBN: 0-231-12596-8 "In this sixteenth-century masterpiece of Telugu literature, from the region now known as Andhra Pradesh, Suranna recounts the story of a young courtesan who ..." |
 | | A Lover's Guide to Warangal The Kridabhiramamu by Vinukonda Vallabharaya, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, Bhagaban Dean Swain, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Phillip B. Wagoner, Vaelcaeru Naaraayaonaraavu Hardcover, 103 Pages, Published 2002 by Permanent Black ISBN-13: 978-81-7824-029-9, ISBN: 81-7824-029-7 "WA&ANQAL The- Kridabkiramamu,by Vinukonda, Vallabharaya, A uteMemU Teluyu,parodi&iwse--pty transited- by Velcheru- Narayana, Rao and David Shulman The- Kruiahhiramamu, of Vinukonda, Vallabharaya, occupies a, unique - place, in, the, history of South Indian, literature,. Composed, as a- one-act play in, Telugu- verse- in-the- early fifteenth century, it offers a, parodic vision, of the, Kakatiya, capital of Warangal as reimagined by ..." |
 | | Girls for Sale Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Gurajada Apparao, Gurujada Venkata Apparao, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2007 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34899-9, ISBN: 0-253-34899-4 "First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism s effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very you ..." |
 | | Girls for Sale(7th Edition) Kanyasulkam, a Play from Colonial India by Gurajada Apparao, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Gurujada Venkata Apparao, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2007 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21913-8, ISBN: 0-253-21913-2 "First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism’s effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very you ..." |
 | | Suny Series in Hindu Studies Demon's Daughter: a Love Story from South India by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Pingali Suranna, Piṅgaḷi Sūrana, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu 138 Pages, Published 2006 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-8215-5, ISBN: 0-7914-8215-4 "When Bali agreed, the dwarf swelled to the limits of the cosmos. 14. vipra-vakyam . janârdanah., an aphorism in which Vishnu is quot- ed as recommending following a Brahmin's advice (at the time of initiat- ing any action). Here Vishnu ironically follows his own advice. Cf. Kridabhiramamu of Vinukonda Vallabharaya , 66; Srinatha, Bhimesvarapuranamu, 3.41. 15. upasruti—according to Vemparala Suryanarayana Sastri, upasruti is a form of ..." |
 | | Siva's Warriors The Basava Purana of Palkuriki Somanatha (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) by Palakuriki Somanatha, Velcheru Narayana -. Translator, V.N. Rao, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 1990 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-05591-6, ISBN: 0-691-05591-2 "Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most important and most radical religious groups of South India. The ideas of the Virasaivas, or militant Saivas, are represented in those tales by an intriguing mix of outrageous excess and traditional conservatism. Written in Telugu in the thirteenth century, the Basava Purana is an anthology of ..." |
 | | For the Lord of the Animals Poems from the Telugu The Kalahastisvara Satakamu of Dhurjati by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Hank Heifetz, Hand Heifetz, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu Hardcover, 189 Pages, Published 1988 by Univ Of California Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-520-05669-5, ISBN: 0-520-05669-8 "Introduction. The temple at Kalahasti, a small town in the far south of the modern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is built on the bank of a river now known as the Mogileru but in tradition given the Sanskrit name, Suvarnamukhari, "the River with ..." |
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