Yasodhara : (Record no. 92390)
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| fixed length control field | 01832nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240411b2018 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789387693692 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fiction SAS-V |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sasson, Vanessa R. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Yasodhara : |
| Remainder of title | a novel about the Buddha's wife / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Vanessa R. Sasson |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Speaking Tiger |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 304p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Who was Yasodhara? The Buddha’s forgotten and abandoned wife? The mother of his only son? Or an enlightened being in her own right, denied her rightful place in the stories and histories about the Buddha? A long time ago, in a far-off kingdom, a boy and a girl, born on the same day, were destined to be together and then painfully wrenched apart. The boy was Siddhattha, heir to the Sakya kingdom and the future Buddha; the girl was the beautiful and precocious Yasodhara, his friend who became his loving wife. In this exquisitely crafted narrative, we encounter Yasodhara as a fiercely independent, passionate and resilient individual. We witness her joys and sorrows, her expectations and frustrations, her fairy-tale wedding and her overwhelming devastation at the departure of her beloved.It is through her eyes that we witness Siddhattha’s slow transformation, from a sheltered prince to a deeply sensitive young man. On the way, we see how the gods watch over the future Buddha from the clouds, how the king and his ministers try to keep the suffering of the world from him and how he eventually renounces the throne, his wife and newly-born son to seek enlightenment.Resurrecting a forgotten woman from the origin stories of the Buddha, Vanessa R. Sasson combines the spirit of fiction and the fabulism of Indian mythology with impeccable scholarship, to tell the evocative and deeply moving story of an extraordinary life. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | FIC | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Fiction "1st Floor" | 30/04/2024 | Fiction SAS-V | 48778 | 13/07/2024 | 11/04/2024 | Books |