The Seduction Of Shiva

The Seduction Of Shiva Tales Of Life And Love

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Publisher's Synopsis

The god Shiva is utterly seduced by Mohini, the enchanting female form assumed by the god Vishnu during the churning of the ocean for nectar. A barber employs wit and wile and rumours of witchcraft to win his wife back from the lustful attentions of their king. The celestial nymph Urvashi curses the Pandava prince Arjuna when he rejects her sexual advances. A woman caught in adultery befools her elders with a religious ritual. A man with a disagreeable missing wife insists nevertheless that she be recovered by his ruler who has a similar problem. Refined, colloquial, romantic, cynical, satirical by turns, these stories of erotic love, elegantly translated from the Sanskrit classics, make a sustained argument for the secular ends of life - of desire tempered with discrimination and pleasure with restraint.

Book information

ISBN: 9780143415404
Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Imprint: India Penguin Classics
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: -1g
Height: 200mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 20mm