{"product_id":"seven-hundred-elegant-verses","title":"Seven Hundred Elegant Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Go·várdhana composed his \"Seven Hundred Elegant Verses\" in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go·várdhana wished to reflect and appeal to a sophisticated culture. These poems each consist of a single stanza, almost as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotion, though the favorite topic is love in all its aspects.\u003cbr\u003e\nCo-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\nFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http:\/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54226568741208,"sku":"9780814736876","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780814736876__67656d568cd27_4eddc7c2-4d6c-4a21-ba14-38336ec2c5b0.jpg?v=1741156520","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/seven-hundred-elegant-verses","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}