Into the twilight of Sanskrit court poetry : the Sena salon of Bengal and beyond / Jesse Ross Knutson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knutson, Jesse Ross, author.

Series:

South Asia across the disciplines.

South Asia across the disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit poetry--History and criticism.

Sanskrit poetry.

Poetics--History--To 1500.

Poetics.

Bengal (India)--Intellectual life.

Bengal (India).

Bengal (India)--Court and courtiers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted each other in a commingling of high and low styles. A literary salon in what is now Bangladesh, at the eastern extreme of the nexus of regional courtly cultures that defined the age, seems to have implicitly reformulated its entire literary system in the context of the imminent breakdown of the old courtly world, as Turkish power expanded and redefined the landscape. Through close readings of a little-known corpus of texts from eastern India, this ambitious book demonstrates how a local and rural sensibility came to infuse the cosmopolitan language of Sanskrit, creating a regional literary idiom that would define the emergence of the Bengali language and its literary traditions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Political Poetic of the Sena Court

2. Poetic Antigravity: Govardhana's Āryāsaptaśatī

3. The Vernacular Cosmopolitan: Jayadeva's Gītagovinda

4. Vulgar Kāvya: Baḍu Canḍīdās's Śrīkṛsṇīrttana

Conclusion: The Tropography of the Sena World

Appendix A. The Complete Verses Attributed to the Sena Kings

Appendix B. The Complete Verses Attributed to Govardhana (Not Found in the Āryāsaptaśatī)

Appendix C. The Complete Verses Attributed to Jayadeva (not found in the Gītagovinda)

Appendix D. Gītagovinda-Śrīkṛsṇīrttana Correspondences

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520957794

0520957792

OCLC:

871860617