Three Satires

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Written over a period of nearly a thousand years, these works show three very different approaches to satire.

Nila·kantha gets straight to the point: swindlers prey on stupidity.

When asked about the length of life, the astrologer will predict longevity. Those who survive will be in awe of him. Who will the dead complain to?

The artistry that beguiles Ksheméndra is as varied as human nature and just as fallible. We are off to a gentle start with Sanctimoniousness – really no more than a warm-up among vices – but soon graduate to Greed and Lust. From there it’s downhill all the way, as Unfaithfulness leads to Fraud, and Drunkenness to Depravity; Deception and Quackery bring up the rear. What’s this at the very end? Virtue? A late arrival, pale and unconvincing. Bhállata the disgruntled court poet speaks of a setting sun (his former king and patron Avánti·varma) being replaced by a flickering firefly (the new king Shánkara·deva, who did not continue his predecessor’s patronage).

Only an elephant, who batters towering cliffs with relentless assaults of his spear-pointed tusk-tips knows the pain of the thunderbolt-swipes of a lion’s paw; not a jackal, whose spirit perishes at the yapping of a puppy.

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Clay Sanskrit library, 11.

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New York University Press : New York University Press., 2005

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