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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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Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Maurice H. Harris (ed.)
1902Sakuntala; or, The Fatal Ring
Kalidasa (ed. T. Holme)
c. 1930s–early 1940sThe Poems of Kalidasa
Kalidasa
1945The Dramas of Kalidasa
Kalidasa (trans. Mrs. Bela / Dola Bose)
1905The Little Clay Cart (Mṛcchakaṭika)
Sudraka (trans. Arthur William Ryder)
1959Tales of Ancient India
J.A.B. van Buitenen