Conventions and Representations of Love in Early Sanskrit Kāvyas

Understanding how a particular society comprehends, construes and represents love is significant from the point of view of cultural, emotional and literary history. Love has been a prominent theme in Sanskrit literature\ from the earliest times. Often referred to as the ‘interior’ emotion, its effect has been considered the most widespread, impacting old and young, rich and poor, married and unmarried, and a range of other people and social categories. De states that although we come across only a few episodes of love in Vedic and Buddhist literature, love runs as a motif through Indian epic poetry. And, it is with the beginning of the classical

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