{"product_id":"9780674295919-theft-of-a-tree","title":"Theft of a Tree","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Tale by the Court Poet of the Vijayanagara Empire\u003cbr\u003eNandi Timmana’s \u003ci\u003eTheft of a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting \u003ci\u003epārijāta\u003c\/i\u003e tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods, to appease his wife Satyabhama. This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of a thousand-year-old story of Krishna and his wife Satyabhama, retold by the most famous court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegend has it that the sixteenth-century Telugu poet Nandi Timmana composed \u003ci\u003eTheft of a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003ePārijātāpaharaṇamu\u003c\/i\u003e, to help the wife of Krishnadevaraya, king of the south Indian Vijayanagara Empire, win back her husband’s affections. Timmana based his work on a popular millennium-old Krishna tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheft of a Tree\u003c\/i\u003e recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting \u003ci\u003epārijāta\u003c\/i\u003e tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods. Krishna takes the tree to please his favorite wife, Satyabhama, who is upset when he gifts his chief queen a single divine flower. After battling Indra, he plants the \u003ci\u003epārijāta\u003c\/i\u003e for Satyabhama—but she must perform a rite temporarily relinquishing it and her husband to enjoy endless happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41513929637985,"sku":"9780674295919","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41160850_921ba054-df66-4678-8f5f-edbe0599be84.jpg?v=1778128478","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674295919-theft-of-a-tree","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}