Caturyuga Calendar of Vaivasvata Manvantara (Puranic Chronicles)

R. Parthasarathy was for several years a literary editor with Oxford University Press, Chennai and Delhi. His first book, Rough Passage, was a runner-up for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. His second book, A House Divided: Poems of Love and War (forthcoming), is set against the turbulent history of the subcontinent. Parthasarathy has also edited Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets. He is currently working on a verse translation of the Manimekalai (`The Jeweled Belt'), the only surviving Buddhist epic in Tamil.