@article{1492719, recid = {1492719}, author = {Timmana, Nandi and Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti and Narayana Rao, Velcheru}, title = {Theft of a tree a tale by the court poet of the Vijayanagara Empire}, pages = {1 online resource}, abstract = {Nandi Timmana's Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting pārijāta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods, to appease his wife Satyabhama. This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1492719}, }