About the Book: Ten Indian Classics
2,500 years of Indias dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range
of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet.
Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval battles and separated
lovers,Buddhist women on their journeys toward nirvana and Rams battle against a
demon army to rescue Sita—all this and more can be found in the Murty Classical
Library of Indias Ten Indian Classics.
Beginning in the sixth century BCE and coming up to the eighteenth century,
spanning the Indian subcontinent, the selections in this anthology include some
of the oldest womens writing in the world, exquisite Sanskrit court poems,
verses from the