Interpretations of Some Passages from the Sacred Texts in Ancient and Medieval India as Literary Works
The ‘Stealing Clothes Motif’ and the Smaller Sukhāvatīvyūha
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21333719 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoshifumi Mizuno (0000-0003-2209-352X, 東京外国語大学教授, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | 印度學佛教學研究 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4344 • E-ISSN: 1884-0051 |
| Publisher | Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4259/ibk.71.1_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4386508970 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The ‘Vastra-haraṇa’ (Kṛṣṇa’s stealing clothes) motif in the Bhāgavata-purāṇa (10th century, in south India) must have pertained to the Paiśācī sentences(1st century BC)quoted by Bhoja (11th century) in his Śṛiṅgāraprakāśa and can be traced back to the Vedic “Purūravas and Urvasī story,” which is considered the global origin of the swan-maiden motif (that is, stealing clothes motif) in tales of marriage between a human and a nonhuman being. According to the ‘ākhyāna theory,’ we can observe that the authors adopted such a motif from vernacular folktales into the sacred Sanskrit books
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Literature · Motif (music) · Sanskrit · Vernacular · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |