Sur's Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition (Murty Classical Library of India): 5

by Surdas (Author), John Stratton Hawley (Author), Kenneth E. Bryant (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $38.84

  Surdas represents the epitome of artistry in premodern Hindi poetry. This fifteenth-century poet refashioned the widely known narrative of the deity Krishna and his lover Radha into elegant devotional lyrics. Surdas's popularity led to a massive growth, through an energetic oral tradition, of poems ascribed to him, the Sursagar.