04782nam 2201057 450 991082196010332120230803195351.00-520-95779-210.1525/9780520957794(CKB)2670000000529467(EBL)1645302(SSID)ssj0001132417(PQKBManifestationID)11733862(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132417(PQKBWorkID)11154326(PQKB)10985274(StDuBDS)EDZ0000230016(MiAaPQ)EBC1645302(OCoLC)871860617(MdBmJHUP)muse32358(DE-B1597)518694(OCoLC)1086546228(DE-B1597)9780520957794(Au-PeEL)EBL1645302(CaPaEBR)ebr10843144(CaONFJC)MIL579396(EXLCZ)99267000000052946720130918h20142014 uy| 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrInto the twilight of Sanskrit court poetry the Sena salon of Bengal and beyond /Jesse Ross KnutsonBerkeley :University of California Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (223 p.)South Asia across the disciplinesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-28205-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexAt 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.South Asia across the disciplines.Sanskrit poetryHistory and criticismPoeticsHistoryTo 1500Bengal (India)Intellectual lifeBengal (India)Court and courtiers13th century literature.bangladesh.bengal.bengali language.bookish.cosmopolitan.courtly writing.creative writing.cultural studies.eastern india.high literature.high styles of writing.historical.history.indian subcontinent.king laksmanasena of bengal.literary studies.literary traditions.literary.literature.low styles of writing.old courtly world.pastoral poetry.poems.poetry and poets.poetry.regional literature.rural.sanskrit poetry.urban.verse.writing.Sanskrit poetryHistory and criticism.PoeticsHistory891/.21009Knutson Jesse Ross765732MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821960103321Into the twilight of Sanskrit court poetry1560071UNINA