Eloquent Echoes
Sudhamahi Regunathan
LLUMINATING WORLDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CLASSICAL INDIAN LITERATURE by Translated and introduced by Srinivas Reddy Bloomsbury India, , 2025, 320 pp., INR ₹ 799.00
TEN INDIAN CLASSICS by Foreword by Ranjit Hoskote The Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press,, 2024, 272 pp., INR ₹ 599.00
April 2025, volume 49, No 4
Hala, a Satavahana ruler of the 2nd century AD, remains in our memory not because of his military conquests or his superbly run kingdom (which it may have still been), but for his compilation of an anthology of some of the most beautiful Prakrit poetry. It is said,
From out of ten million verses
Composed with literary skill,
Hala, who was sympathetic to poets,
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