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400–500 AD

← Back to All Books 400–500 AD This bookshelf brings together Sanskrit drama, Indian poetry, and Hebraic literature from the 400–500 AD period, highlighting how different traditions explored dignity, justice, moral responsibility, and human freedom. Reading these works broadens the history of liberty and dignity beyond the familiar Greek, Roman, Christian, and modern European traditions. Kalidasa and Sudraka show hum

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1944

Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

Maurice H. Harris (ed.)

1902

Sakuntala; or, The Fatal Ring

Kalidasa (ed. T. Holme)

c. 1930s–early 1940s

The Poems of Kalidasa

Kalidasa

1945

The Dramas of Kalidasa

Kalidasa (trans. Mrs. Bela / Dola Bose)

1905

The Little Clay Cart (Mṛcchakaṭika)

Sudraka (trans. Arthur William Ryder)

1959

Tales of Ancient India

J.A.B. van Buitenen