The Eight Nayikas

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Rasikapriya chapter VII, text and translation. 3. Other poets. 4. Other conditions of the nayika. Index.

"Indian writers have long been interested in the classification of heroes and heroines in well-defined types. Such classifications are typically developed in Sanskrit treatises such as Natyasastra, the Sahitya-Darpana, and Kama Sutra and in other works and later in vernacular literature of Hindustan, chiefly in Rasikapriya, Satsaiya, and the Bhasa-bhusana." (jacket)