seen from China
seen from Ireland
seen from Denmark
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from Maldives
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Maldives
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from France
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra has translated some love poems in Prakrit beautifully into English. 'The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana' has some of the best short love poems I've ever read. AKM, thank you for this gem of an anthology.
How can you describe her? When your gaze falls on one of her parts, like a sick cow fallen in mud, it cannot escape.
Gathasaptasati, Anonymous
Even in a reeling world as great as this, teeming with thousands of gorgeous women, nothing at all compares to her right half save for her left.
Gathasaptasati, Anonymous
Lone Buck
Lone buck
in the clearing
nearby doe
eyes him with such
longing
that there
in the trees the hunter
seeing his own girl
lets the bow drop.
From the Gathasaptasati
Collected by King Hala. First Century AD. Translated from the Prakrit by Andrew Schelling.
