Krishna, The Butter Thief / / John Stratton Hawley.
The author traces the development of the theme of Krishna as butter thief from its earliest appearance in literature and art until the present. He focuses on the dramas (ras lilas) of Krishna's native Braj and on the Sur Sagar, a collection of verse attributed to the sixteenth-century poet Sur...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1983 |
| Publicatiejaar: | 2014 |
| Editie: | Course Book |
| Taal: | English |
| Reeks: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Fysieke beschrijving: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Transliteration
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Poems Translated from the Sur Sāgar
- Introduction. The Butter and the Thief
- Part I. Before Sūr Dās
- Chapter 1. The Tradition in Literature
- Chapter 2. The Tradition in Sculpture
- Part II. The Sūr Sāgai
- Chapter 3. Sur's Butter Thief Poems: Two Types
- Chapter 4. The Butter Thief in Context
- Chapter 5. The Legacy of Sūr's Butter Thief
- Part III. The Rās Līlās
- Chapter 6. The Butter Thief Līlā
- Chapter 7. Variations on the Butter Theme
- Part IV. Interpretation
- Chapter 8. The Unbounded Economy of Love
- Chapter 9. Other Boundaries: An Outsider's View
- Appendixes
- Appendix A. Tables of Kṛṣṇacarita Sculptures to 1500 A.D.
- Appendix B. Index of Kṛṣṇacarita Sculptures To 1500 A.D.
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index