The Hermit and the love-thief
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The Hermit and the love-thief
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 1990
- : pbk
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Originally published: Guildford : Columbia University Press, 1978
Poems from Bhartrihari's Śatakatraya and from Bilhana's Caurapan̄cāśikā
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Bhartrihari, a philosopher of the fifth century, is popularly thought to be a king who retired to the forest upon discovering his queens infidelity. Bilhana, a poet of the 11th century, is reputed to have been a traveling courtier who became secretly involved with a kings young daughter and who was condemned to death when the love affair was discovered. "The Hermit" and "The Love Thief" bring together the verses of these two legendary figures.
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