{"product_id":"three-satires-9780814788141","title":"Three Satires","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nila Kantha | Kshemendra | Bhallata\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Clay Sanskrit\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Clay Sanskrit\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Indic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Age Ridiculed, \u003c\/i\u003e by Níla-kantha, \u003ci\u003eBeguiling Artistry, \u003c\/i\u003e by Ksheméndra, \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Allegories, \u003c\/i\u003e by Bhállata\u003cbr\u003eWritten over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire. Níla-kantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity.\u003cbr\u003eThe artistry that beguiles Ksheméndra is as varied as human nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start Sanctimonious--really no more than a warm-up among vices--but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it's downhill all the way, as unfaithfulness leads on to fraud, and drunkenness to depravity; deception and quackery bring up the rear. What's this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents three Indian satirists with three different strategies: in the ninth century C.E., Bhállata sought vengeance on his boorish new king by producing vicious sarcastic verse, \"The Hundred Allegories;\" in the eleventh century, Ksheméndra presents himself as a social reformer out to shame the complacent into compliance with Vedic morality; and in the seventeenth century little can redeem the fallen characters Níla-kantha portrays, so his duty is simply to warn about the corruption of every social type.\u003cbr\u003eCo-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003eFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: \/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clay Sanskrit","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47587511435415,"sku":"9780814788141","price":2657.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780814788141.webp?v=1774966784","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/three-satires-9780814788141","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}