{"product_id":"9780814716830-handsome-nanda","title":"Handsome Nanda","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOffers a collection of animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, designed to instruct wayward princes. This title also contains the compact version of King Vikrama's Adventures, thirty-two tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva·ghosha's \u003cb\u003eHandsome Nanda\u003c\/b\u003e portrays its hero's spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill.\u003cbr\u003e Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003e For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http:\/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449794048374,"sku":"9780814716830","price":18.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38017053_d00b430f-fcdb-48d9-bcc5-c38d70f6c7d6.jpg?v=1763622070","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814716830-handsome-nanda","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}