Search Results: nala and damayanti by penzer norman m

United Kingdom: A. M. Philpot. Good. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. A Good hardcover without dustjacket. Book is in soiled, rubbed boards which are very rubbed and bumped to the corners and bottom edges. The white vellum backstrip is soiled and bumped to the ends. Internally very good, no writing or stamps, tanned pages, only very occasionally lightly foxed, tanned and foxed to the text-block edges. One of a limited edition of 1000, though unnumbered. Illustrations are all present. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Color Illustrations; 207 pages .

London: Published by A.M.Philpot, 1926. 8vo. pp.xi + 207 with 10 colour plates by P. Zenker. a little offsetting of the endpapers, vellum a little soiled. Quarter vellum with gold cloth hardcover boards Limited this is Number 385 of 1000 numbered copies. 'In Hindu mythology, Nala and Damayanti were lovers who overcame various obstacles to marry and live happily. Their story appears in the Hindu epic the Mahabharata and in the Naiadhiyacarita, a poem written by the poet Shriharsha. Nala, King of Nishadas, also known as a chakravartin, was chosen by Damayanti as her husband in the swayamvara, a function in which the bride selects her husband from among the invitees, in preference to even the gods who came to marry her'.