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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821960103321

Autore

Knutson Jesse Ross

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95779-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

South Asia across the disciplines

Disciplina

891/.21009

Soggetti

Sanskrit poetry - History and criticism

Poetics - History - To 1500

Bengal (India) Intellectual life

Bengal (India) Court and courtiers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.