About the Author

Prince Ilango Adigal was a Tamil poet of ancient India and is considered as important to India as Homer was to the Western world. Alain Danielou was an Indian historian, intellectual, musicologist, and a noted western convert to and expert of Shaivite Hinduism.

Reviews

"The Ankle Bracelet (dated between the third and seventh centuries A.D.) is one of the ancient epic romances in Tamil--providing a tale of wonders and woes, magic and misfortune." -- Choice