A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India
Publisher: Univ of California Pr | 1997 | ISBN: 0520203992 | English | PDF | 179 pages | 1.1 Mb
Publisher: Univ of California Pr | 1997 | ISBN: 0520203992 | English | PDF | 179 pages | 1.1 Mb
This collection of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A.K. Ramanujan. With a written literature recorded from about 800 AD, Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently, novels and plays.