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Theft of a Tree (Hardcover)
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Theft of a Tree (Hardcover)
Series: Murty Classical Library of India
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A thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama retold
by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire. Legend
has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana
composed Theft of a Tree, or Parijatapaharanamu, which he based on
a popular millennium-old tale, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya,
king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her
husband's affections. Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole
the parijata, a wish-granting tree, from the garden of Indra, king
of the gods. Krishna does so to please his favorite wife,
Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single
divine flower. After battling Indra, Krishna plants the tree for
Satyabhama-but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it
and her husband to enjoy endless happiness. The poem's narrative
unity, which was unprecedented in the literary tradition,
prefigures the modern Telugu novel. Theft of a Tree is presented
here in the Telugu script alongside the first English translation.
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