Indian Poetry

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Collated in 1886, this is a collection of Indian and Oriental poems, songs and two books from the 'Iliad of India'.

Chapter 1; THE INDIAN SONG OF SONGS.; Chapter 2 MISCELLANEOUS ORIENTAL POEMS.; Chapter 3 TWO BOOKS FROM THE ILIAD OF INDIA.; Chapter 4 FROM THE “SAUPTIKA PARVA” OF THE MAHÁBHÁRATA, OR “NIGHT OF SLAUGHTER.”; Chapter 5 THE MORNING PRAYER.; Chapter 6 PROVERBIAL WISDOM FROM THE SHLOKAS OF THE HITOPADESA.; Chapter 7 PREFACE; Chapter 8 PROVERBIAL WISDOM FROM THE SHLOKAS OF THE HITOPADEÂA;

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Edwin Arnold Author of the 'The Light of Asia'. Officer of the White Elephant of Siam, Third Class of the Imperial Order of the Mejidie, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Royal Geographical Societies, Formerly Principal of the Deccan College, Poona and Fellow of the University of Bombay.