Poetry as prayer in the Sanskrit hymns of Kashmir / Hamsa Stainton.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stainton, Hamsa, author.

Series:

• AAR religion in translation.
• Oxford scholarship online.
• Religion in translation
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Religious poetry, Sanskrit--India--Jammu and Kashmir--History and criticism.
• Hymns, Sanskrit--India--Jammu and Kashmir--History and criticism.
• Hinduism--Prayers and devotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia. In this text, Hamsa Stainton investigates the close connection between poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It provides a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and charts the course of these literary hymns in Kashmir from the ninth century to the present. In particular, it offers the first study in any European language of the Stutikusumanjali, a major work of religious literature dedicated to the god Siva and one of the only extant witnesses to the trajectory of Sanskrit literary culture in fourteenth-century Kashmir.

Contents:

• Stotra literature: an overview
• Literary hymns from Kashmir
• Poetry as theology
• Poetry as prayer
• Stotra as Kavya
• Devotion as rasa
• Stotra as tradition.

Notes:

• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2019).
• Also issued in print: 2019.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0-19-088984-5
• 0-19-088982-9
• 0-19-088983-7