These flowering--seemingly easy--translations are delightful to read...'Blossoming of Love,' 'Love in Enjoyment,' and a few others, celebrate sex play that is sensuous and ecstatic, yet not lacking artistry and taste...'Characterizations,' 'Old Age,' 'the Hero,' various gods--on and on, there is an inexhaustible variety of subject, style, and tone...One is particularly grateful to Professor Ingalls for proving that it is delightful poetry even in translation...[He] carefully introduces Sanskrit poetry, as to form, metrics, imagery, poetics in general, so that one guesses the power and elegance possible in a tradition so subtly analyzed by its critics.
   --Poetry

Elegant and sophisticated poetry...this is a superb work.
   --New York Times Book Review

David H. H. Ingalls was Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, Harvard University.

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• The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta