{"product_id":"three-satires-9780814788141","title":"Three Satires","description":"\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":"Nila kantha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274211635451,"sku":"9780814788141","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_9b940864-d7b7-4304-af37-3b6d75c69f9e.jpg?v=1771034667","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/three-satires-9780814788141","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}