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Sanskrit poetry --- Rasas --- Poetics --- Abhinavagupta, - Rajanaka
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Sanskrit literature --- Dhvani (Poetics). --- Rasas. --- History and criticism.
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From the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art's formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste, was the word they chose to describe art's aesthetics, and their passionate effort to pin down these phenomena became its own remarkable act of creation.This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa from its origins in dramaturgical thought—a concept for the stage—to its flourishing in literary thought—a concept for the page. A Rasa Reader incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker on classical Indian aesthetics, many never translated before. The arrangement of the selections captures the intellectual dynamism that has powered this debate for centuries. Headnotes explain the meaning and significance of each text, a comprehensive introduction summarizes major threads in intellectual-historical terms, and critical endnotes and an extensive bibliography add further depth to the selections. The Sanskrit theory of emotion in art is one of the most sophisticated in the ancient world, a precursor of the work being done today by critics and philosophers of aesthetics. A Rasa Reader's conceptual detail, historical precision, and clarity will appeal to any scholar interested in a full portrait of global intellectual development. A Rasa Reader is the inaugural book in the Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought series, edited by Sheldon Pollock. These text-based books guide readers through the most important forms of classical Indian thought, from epistemology, rhetoric, and hermeneutics to astral science, yoga, and medicine. Each volume provides fresh translations of key works, headnotes to contextualize selections, a comprehensive analysis of major lines of development within the discipline, and exegetical and text-critical endnotes, as well as a bibliography. Designed for comparativists and interested general readers, Historical Sourcebooks is also a great resource for advanced scholars seeking authoritative commentary on challenging works.
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"This is the first book in over a thousand years to approach the Mahābhārata and the Harivaṃśa via rasa theory. It argues that both texts put adbhutarasa, the "mood of wonder," to work as their dominant rasa, in a way that takes readers from their heroes' rollicking adventures to the text's profoundest moments. Two Kashmiris, Ānandavardhana (9th century) and Abhinavagupta (10th century), launched such inquiry, claiming that the Mahābhārata's dominant rasa was śāntarasa, the "mood of peace." Both worked the Harivaṃśa as a related text into their argument, which emphasized peace along with dispassion and the quest for liberation. Although they used some textual highjinks to make their case, their argument prevailed, and has remained the only serious contestant for rasic interpretation. This book disputes their claim, and can expect controversy. Some may continue to favor śāntarasa. Some may cite the two Kashmiris' view that adbhuta cannot sustain a major work. This book contests that by putting "the work of adbhutarasa" into its title and arguing for the hard work it does. Some may also be uncomfortable with a temporal incongruity the book poses in that the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa are probably four or five centuries earlier than the first text to explore rasas, the Nāṭyaśātra. Śāntarasa faced the same problem but Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, lacking a modern sense of the relative dates, overlooked it. The answer here goes to the heart of this book's argument: our texts deploy the "proper terms" adbhuta, "wonder" and vismaya, "surprise," to work adbhutarasa through rich and contrasting textual strategies. They must have worked out their program with these terms before the śāstra"--
Rasas in literature --- Mahābhārata --- Mahābhārata. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Rasas in literature. --- Mahābhārata --- Mahābhārata.
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Bhanu is probably the most famous Sanskrit poet that no one today has ever heard of. His “Bouquet of Rasa” and “River of Rasa,” both composed in the early sixteenth century, probably under the patronage of the Nizam of Ahmadnagar in western India, attracted the attention of the most celebrated commentators in early modern India. Some of the greatest painters of Mewar and Basohli vied to turn his subtle poems into pictures. And his verses were prized by poets everywhere: Abu al-Fazl, the preeminent scholar at Akbar’s court, translated them into Persian, and, Kshetráyya, the great Andhra poet of the next century, adapted them into Telugu. Many writers have described the types of heroines and heroes of Sanskrit literature (the subject of the “Bouquet of Rasa”) or explained the nature of aesthetic emotion (that of the “River of Rasa”), but none did so in verse of such exquisite and subtle artistry.
Sanskrit poetry --- Rasas --- Poetics --- Bhānudatta Miśra --- Bhānudatta Miśra --- Sanskrit poetry - Translations into English --- Rasas - Poetry --- Poetics - Poetry --- Bhānudatta Miśra - Translations into English
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Church buildings --- Mosaics, Early Christian --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Christian antiquities --- Iconoclasm --- Eglises --- Mosaïque paléochrétienne --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités chrétiennes --- Iconoclasme --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- Palestine --- Antiquities --- Church history --- Antiquités --- Histoire religieuse --- Pavements, Mosaic --- Mosaics, Medieval --- Mosaics --- Mosaïque paléochrétienne --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités chrétiennes --- Antiquités --- Mosaic pavements --- Floors --- Mosaic floors --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- Santo Stefano (Church : Umm al-Raṣāṣ, Jordan) --- Chiesa di Santo Stefano (Umm al-Raṣāṣ, Jordan) --- Chiesa di Santo Stefano ad Umm al-Rasas --- Kanīsat al-Qiddīs Stīfānū (Umm al-Raṣāṣ, Jordan) --- Pavements, Mosaic - Jordan - Umm al-Rasas --- Mosaics, Medieval - Jordan - Umm al-Rasas --- Mosaics - Jordan - Umm al-Rasas
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The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions can be tastes of the divine. In this book, the methods of the emerging discipline of comparative theology enable the author’s appreciation of Hindu texts and practices to illuminate her Christian reflections on aesthetics and emotion. Three emotions vie for prominence in the religious sphere: peace, love, and fury. Whereas Indian theorists following Abhinavagupta claim that the aesthetic emotion of peace best approximates the goal of religious experience, devotees of Krishna and medieval Christian readings of the Song of Songs argue that love communicates most powerfully with divinity. In response to the transcendence emphasized in both approaches, the book turns to fury at injustice to attend to emotion’s foundations in the material realm. The implications of this constructive theology of emotion for Christian liturgy, pastoral care, and social engagement are manifold.
Christianity and other religions --- Hinduism --- Emotions --- Rasas. --- Aesthetics, Indic --- Literature --- Mood (Psychology) --- Poetics --- Rhetoric and psychology --- Hinduism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- Aesthetics --- Abhinavagupta. --- Aesthetics. --- Bernard of Clairvaux. --- Comparative Theology. --- Emotions. --- Gaudiya Vaisnavism. --- Indian Christianity. --- Jyoti Sahi. --- Liberation theology. --- Rasa. --- Christianity and other religions - Hinduism. --- Hinduism - Relations - Christianity. --- Emotions - Religious aspects.
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