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  | | Classical Telugu Poetry(First Edition) by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-34452-5, ISBN: 0-520-34452-9 ""An amazing book. There is nothing remotely like it anywhere in the world. I am in awe at the skill with which the many different voices in this collection have been kept alive. It is a terrific and stunningly interesting read." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | God on the Hill(1st Edition) Temple Poems from Tirupati by David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Annamayya Annamayya, David Dean Shulman, Annamacarya Annamacarya, Velceru Narayanaravu, Tallapaka Tallapaka Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518284-2, ISBN: 0-19-518284-7 "The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music - the classical music of South India. In th ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | A Poem at the Right Moment Remembered Verses from Premodern South India by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman 232 Pages, Published 2021 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30947-0, ISBN: 0-520-30947-2 "Each poem is presented in a contemporary English translation along with the Indian-language original. An introduction and a concluding essay explore in detail the stories and texts that comprise the catu system." |
 | | Srinatha The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-986303-7, ISBN: 0-19-986303-2 "“Toward a New Theory of Masks.” In David Shulman and Deborah Thiagarajan ( eds.), Masked Ritual and Performance in South India: Dance, Healing, and Possession. Ann Arbor: Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of Michigan, 2006, 17–58. ——— . “How to Bring a Goddess into Being through Visible Sound.” In Sergio La Porta and David Shulman (eds.), The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign. Leiden: Br ..." |
 | | Srinatha Poet Who Made Gods and Kings by David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-59434-2, ISBN: 1-280-59434-9 |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Story of Manu(1st Edition) (Murty Classical Library of India) by Allasani Peddana, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2015 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-42776-1, ISBN: 0-674-42776-9 "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 ..." |
 | | When God Is a Customer Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others by A. K. Ramanujan, David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao Digital, 158 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91324-0, ISBN: 0-520-91324-8 |
 | | A Poem at the Right Moment ; Remembered Verses from Premodern South India by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman 432 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-564803-4, ISBN: 0-19-564803-X |
 | | The Demon's Daughter A Love Story from South India (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies) by Pingali Surana, Professor Pingali Suranna, David Dean Shulman, Velceru Narayanaravu, David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao Hardcover, 122 Pages, Published 2006 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6695-7, ISBN: 0-7914-6695-7 "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 overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by hav ..." |
 | | 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" ..." |
 | | Classical Telugu Poetry by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Schulman, David Shulman Paperback, 418 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-567018-9, ISBN: 0-19-567018-3 "... River.16 The third was Ksirarama, established by Ramacandra 13 Reading, with Gundavarapu Laksmi Narayana, jutdvi-kroda-ghata- karoti-kotara-kuti-koti* . ..." |
 | | Voices from Asia A Poem at the Right Moment : Remembered Verses from Premodern South India 10 by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20847-6, ISBN: 0-520-20847-1 |
 | | 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 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 ..." |
 | | When God is a Customer(Updated) Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others by A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Dean Shulman Hardcover, 158 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08068-3, ISBN: 0-520-08068-8 "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 adopt ..." |
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