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The Flight of Love - A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Vedantedesika (Hardcover)
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The Flight of Love - A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Vedantedesika (Hardcover)
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After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita,
Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a
clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of
lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled his
lost beloved, he began to plead with the bird to send her a message
of love and fierce revenge. This is the setting of the Hamsasandesa
("A Message for the Goose"), a sandesa or "messenger poem" by the
medieval saint-poet and philosopher Vedantedesika, a seminal figure
for the Srivaisnava religious community of Tamil Nadu, South India,
and a master poet in Sanskrit and Tamil. In The Flight of Love,
Steven P. Hopkins situates Vedantedesika's Sanskrit sandesa within
the wider comparative context of South Indian and Sri Lankan
literatures. He traces the significance of messenger poetry in the
construction of sacred landscapes in pre-modern South Asia and
explores the ways the piece re-envisions the pan-Indian story of
Rama and Sita, rooting his protagonists in a turbulent emotional
world where separation, overwhelming desire, and anticipated bliss,
are written into the living particularized bodies of lover and
beloved, in the "messenger" goose and in the landscapes surrounding
them. Hopkins's translation of the Hamsasandesa into fluid American
English verse is framed by a comparative introduction, including an
extended essay on translation, detailed linguistic notes, and an
expanded thematic commentary that weaves together traditional
religious interpretations of the poem with themes of contemporary
literary relevance. Equally the work of a scholar and a poet, this
book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian
studies, comparative religion, and Indian literatures.
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