About the Book: Amarushataka: A Centennial of Love Songs
Amarushataka is considered to be one of the finest poetic creations in Sanskrit
in ancient India and is a watershed development in the genre of Shringara Rasa.
We do not know who the poet Amaru was, but a number of legends abound and it is
believed that he lived in the seventh century. In Amarus poetic gems love is not
measured but experienced, it is not evaluated socially but felt in the deepest
recesses of the mind and heart. He paints the varied moods and nuances of love
with words that evoke vivid colours and rhythms