What Ten Young Men Did

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The crown prince becomes separated from his nine friends. Each of the ten young men has several adventures on his quest to be reunited with the others, culminating in their conquest of all competitor kingdoms. Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent as both motivating factor and indispensable means. Commentators have lambasted Dandin’s heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction.

The book stands apart from the mass of classical Sanskrit literature since it is written in prose, not the ubiquitous verse. In an antique tradition where so much is lost to the passing of time, this work has survived thanks, perhaps, to the narrative of one of the ten youths. Mantra·gupta’s lips have been so ravished with biting kisses that he is constrained to tell his story without allowing his lips to touch, that is, without using the letters m or p or b. Dandin’s artful circumlocutions have a spontaneous feel. The present translation is the first in the long history of translations of this masterpiece to strive to reproduce that effect in English.


I then made a drawing in my likeness, saying:
‘Take this to her. Once she has seen and studied it, she is bound to ask:
“Can there exist a man who looks like this?”
Respond to her:
“What if there were?”
Then bring me her answer.’

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0004880

PK 3794 .D4D213 2005

Research Library (อาคาร 1 ชั้น 4)

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Clay Sanskrit library, 10.

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PK 3794 .D4D213 2005

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New York University Press Jjc : The Clay Sanskrit Library., 2005

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651 p. : map ; 17 cm.

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English

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9780814762066

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Indo-Iranian languages and literatures

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Indo-Iranian languages and literatures

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