Bhartrihari is the the earliest Indian poet to become well known to the Western world. His poems were translated into Dutch in 1651 and into German in 1663; a number of English versions appeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These verses reveal to the reader the Hindu temperament. Torn between the flesh and the spirit; reaching out now for sensuous satisfactions and now for salvation, seeking first honor and gain and then the integrity which is indifferent to both, the poet records his varying moods in this rich collection of lyric and gnomic Sanskrit verse. Barbara Stoller Miller's translation embraces all the poems included in the definitive edition of D. D. Kosambi, published in 1948.