The Winding Ways of Poetry
Ratnaśrījñāna on Daṇḍin’s mārgas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12875107 |
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| Authors | Lidia Wojtczak (University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cracow Indological Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1732-0917 • E-ISSN: 2449-8696 |
| Publisher | Księgarna Akademicka (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.12797/cis.22.2020.02.01 |
| OpenAlex | W3123747428 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
One of the earliest Sanskrit poeticians, Daṇḍin, dedicates an entire chapter of his Kāvyādarśa to the investigation of mārgas or the ‘ways’ of poetry. These are based on adaptable configurations of poetic qualities and faults and, although there seems to be an infinite number of ‘ways’, Daṇḍin characterises only two, Vaidarbha and Gauḍīya. In this paper, I show how the earliest known commentator of the Kāvyādarśa, Ratnaśrījñāna, uses philosophical discussions and archetypes to expand on Daṇḍin’s rather cursory engagement with the methodology of the ‘ways’ to create a truly śāstric schema
Archetype · Art · Information retrieval · Literature · Poetry · Sanskrit · Schema (genetic algorithms · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Highly cited | No |
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