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The Power of Suggestion: Rasa, Dhvani, and the Ineffable
There is no denying the difficulty of expressing in words the meanings behind complex emotions. If they cannot be conveyed because they are personal...
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The Dhārmic Function of Sanskrit Kāvya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force
The primary function of Sanskrit kāvya was always to please the readers. Literary theoreticians like Abhinavagupta often considered esthetic...
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Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music: A Dialogue with Mukund Lath
This article offers a dialogue with Mukund Lath. It is comprised of three parts: Part One introduces Lath’s body of work. The second and third parts...
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Divine and Divine-Human Speeches of the Devi: The Speech Contexts and the Dynamics of Authority in the Devi Gitas
This chapter deals with the Devi Gitas where Devi/Goddess appears as a spiritual teacher rather than a slayer of demons. It scrutinizes the specific...
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Sincere Praise of Honest Sweat: Tirumalamba’s Varadambika Parinaya Campu and **ali Surana’s Kalapurnodayam
I have gathered and studied these Sanskrit and Telugu writings by South Indian poets, and I’ve thought about them, and researched them for a few...
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Śrī Swāminārāyaṇ’s Position on Śabdapramāṇa and Śruti: Questions of Epistemic and Theological Validity
This paper argues that Śrī Swāminārāyaṇ espoused a position on the pramāṇa -s (means of knowing), and his theory was that among these it is śabdapramāṇa ...
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Three Brajbhāṣā Versions of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Central to Vaiṣṇava bhakti as it was propagated in Braj from the sixteenth century is the Bhāgavata Purāṇa . That bhakti spread to the Rājpūt courts,...