Suleiman Charitra

A Hindu poet Kalyana Malla renders in classical Sanskrit a biblical story for his Muslim patron a Lodhi prince of the sixteenth century in this unusual intermingling of culturaltraditions. The sensual unfolding of David and Bathsheba’s love story-the bathing scene David’s infatuation his pursuit of Bathsheba and their eventual union-is strikingly portrayed in the language of the gods through its shringara rasa or the erotic mode by a writer better known for the sex manual Ananga Ranga.This marvellous first-ever English translation of Suleiman Charitra-a delightful Sanskrit rendering of Hebraic and Arabic tales-elegantly brings together the east and the west.