Rama Beyond Price - (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Murari (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Rama Beyond Price</b>, a dramatized remake of the <i>Ramáyana</i>, is one of the most challenging pieces of Sanskrit poetry to read. Because of its elegant style, learned allusions, and often striking imagery, the poem has been a favorite among pundits. The well-known epic story of Rama's exploits is presented as a series of political intrigues and battles, and contrasted with lyrical passages of various kinds: on love and war, pride and honor, gods and demons, rites and myths, regions and cities of ancient India. This is the first English translation of the only surviving work by Murári, a brahmin court poet, who lived some time between the eighth and tenth century CE, perhaps in Orissa or in neighboring South India.<br>Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation<br>For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience."<br>-<i>The Times Higher Education Supplement</i></p><br><br><p>"Published in the geek-chic format."<br>-<i>BookForum</i></p><br><br><p>"The <b>Clay Sanskrit Library</b> represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes."<br>-<i>New Criterion</i></p><br><br><p>"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance."<br>-Willis G. Regier, <i>The Chronicle Review</i></p><br><br><p>"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs."<br>-<i>Tricycle</i></p><br>
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