Bouquet of Rasa

Bhānudatta(miśra):
"Bouquet of rasa" ; & "River of rasa" / by Bhānudatta ; transl. by Sheldon Pollock. - [New York, NY] : New York University Press ; JJC Foundation, 2009. - lii, 394 S. - (The Clay Sanskrit library ; 41)
Einheitssachtitel: Rasamañjarī <Sanskrit, engl.> ; Rasataraṅginī <Sanskrit, engl.>
ISBN 978-0-8147-6755-9 / 0-8147-6755-9
US$ 22,00

Beschreibung
Bhānu is probably the most famous Sanskrit poet that no one today has ever heard of. His “Bouquet of Rasa” and “River of Rasa,” composed in the early sixteenth century, probably under the patronage of the Nizam of Ahmadnagar in western India, attracted the attention of the most celebrated commentators in early modern India. Some of the greatest painters of Mewar and Basohli vied to turn his subtle poems into pictures. And his verses, such as this one,
   You stayed awake all night and yet
   it’s my eyes that are throbbing;
   you were the one who drank the rum
   and yet it’s my head that’s splitting;
   and in the bower buzzing with bees
   it was you who stole beauty’s fruit,
   yet I’m the one the Love God wounds
   with his arrows that burn like fire
were prized by poets everywhere: Abu al-Fazl, the preeminent scholar at Akbar’s court, translated it into Persian, and, Kshetrāyya, the great Andhra poet of the next century, adapted it into Telugu. Many writers have described the types of heroines and heroes of Sanskrit literature (the subject of the “Bouquet of Rasa”) or explained the nature of aesthetic emotion (that of the “River of Rasa”), but none did so in verse of such exquisite and subtle artistry. [Clay Sanskrit Library]

Inhalt
CSL Conventions. vii
Acknowledgments. xvii
Introduction. xix
BOUQUET OF RASA
Description of the Náyika. 3
Description of the Náyaka and Related Matters. 91
RIVER OF RASA
First Wave: Description of the Stable Emotions. 129
Second Wave: Description of the Factors. 151
Third Wave: Description of the Physical Reactions. 169
Fourth Wave: Description of the Involuntary Physical Reactions. 187
Fifth Wave: Description of the Transitory Feelings. 201
Sixth Wave: Description of Rasas. 249
Seventh Wave: Description of Rasas Continued. 283
Eighth Wave: Miscellany. 313
Notes. 343

Herausgeber / Übersetzer

SHELDON I. POLLOCK is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University. He has also translated Ramáyana II: Ayódhya and Ramáyana III: The Forest of the Ramáyana and Rama's Last Act. He is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India and editor of Cosmopolitanism and Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. Profile page.

Quellen: Clay Sanskrit Library; New York University Press; WorldCat; Amazon.