02136cam a2200277 i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801370007604200080021308200200022110000150024124500460025626000680030230000260037036500090039649000390040552011030044465000160154765001220156365000370168565000130172265000500173570000260178570000220181170000250183320220607100858.0160325s2017    mau      b    001 0 eng c  a9780674545687  a:International Book Distributorsb:Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi	c:117733	d;05/05/2022	  apcc00a894.814 RAG2230 aRaghavanka14aThe life of Harishchandra c/ Raghavanka   aCambridge, Massachusetts b: Harvard University Press, c©2017  axxxii, 640p. c22 cm.  b15951 aMurty classical library of India ;  aThe Life of Harishchandra, Raghavanka's thirteenth-century masterpiece, is the first poetic rendering of one of ancient India's most enduring legends. When his commitment to truth is tested by a powerful sage, King Harishchandra suffers utter deprivation--the loss of his wife and son, his citizens and power, and, dearest of all, his caste status--but refuses to yield. The tale has influenced poets and readers through the ages. Mahatma Gandhi traced his own commitment to truth to the impact of a Harishchandra play seen in childhood. A poet from northern Karnataka trained in the twin traditions of Sanskrit and Kannada, Raghavanka negotiates a unique space for himself in the Kannada literary canon through important thematic, formal, and stylistic innovations.The conflicts he addresses--of hierarchical social order, political power, caste, and gender--are as relevant to contemporary India as to his own times. Accompanied by the original text in the Kannada script, this spirited translation, the first into any language, brings an elegant and energetic narrative to a global readership.--  aLiteratures  aLiteratures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of South Asia  aHariścandra -- Fiktive Gestalt  aEnglisch  aHariścandra -- Hindu mythological character1 aViswanatha, Vanamala,02aRāghavāṅka.02aViswanatha, Vanamala