God on the Hill

Temple Poems from Tirupati

ANNAMAYYA (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518284-2 (ISBN)

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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 this book, Rao and Shulman offer translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems. All of them are addressed to the god associated with the famous temple city of Tirupati-Annamaya's home-a deity who is sometimes referred to as "god on the hill" or "lord of the seven hills." The poems are couched in a simple and accessible language invented by Annamaya for this purpose. Rao and Shulman's elegant and lyrical modern translations of these beautiful and moving verses are wonderfully readable as poetry in their own right, and will be of great interest to scholars of South Indian history and culture.

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Krishan Devaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. David Shulman is Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.10.2005
Übersetzer	Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Zusatzinfo	1 halftone
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 208 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-19-518284-7 / 0195182847
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518284-2 / 9780195182842
Zustand	Neuware