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Fear and Devotion in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Rasa Theory
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava thinkers adapted rasa theory to a context of devotion to the god Kṛṣṇa. In doing so, bhayānaka-rasa , the aestheticized experience of...
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Ritual and Rasa: a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Recasting of the Role of Ritual Imagination
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas frequently assimilate and recast ancient and established ideas and practices to suit and justify their own theology and goals. The...
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Aesthetic Delight and Beauty: A Comparison of Kant’s Aesthetics and Abhinavagupta’s Theory of Rasa
The study aims to address the existing research gap through a thematic comparison between the aesthetics of Kant and Abhinavagupta. This paper...
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Bhakti, Rasa, and Organizing Character Experience: Vopadeva, Śrīdhara, and Sanātana on Bhāgavata Purāṇa X.43.17
Through an examination of Bhāgavata Purāṇa X.43.17 and its interpretation by early commentators like Vopadeva, Hemādri, Śrīdhara, Sanātana, Rūpa, and...
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The Role of Uttaramandrā-Gāthā in the Aśvamedha: Ancient Evidence of Music for Psychological Stress
Music in the Uttaramandrā-gāna or Gāthā-gāna is an integral part of the Aśvamedha rite. In the rite, the king transferred authority to a priest for a...
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“The Epistemic Significance of adbhutarasa: Aestheticized Wonder as a Virtue of Inquiry”
This analysis holds that just as wisdom is good for its own sake, the effervescent perfuming of aesthetic pleasure in rasa , camatkāra , need not be...
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Śṛṅgāra in Stone: the Śakuntalā Reliefs at Paṭṭadakal
Bas-reliefs of scenes from the epics Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata are extremely common in temples all over India, but depictions of scenes from a...
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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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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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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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Sex, Gender, and Devotional Desire: Refiguring Bodily Identities in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Discourse
Many of the debates among theorists of the body in feminist and gender studies center on the gendered body and its relation to the sexed body, with...
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Rethinking the Early Sufi Romance: The Case of Cāndāyan
In the formation of vernacular North Indian literature in “Hindavī,” an important role is played by “Sufi romance” ( premākhyān ). The earliest love...
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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
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Gandhi the Artist
Daya Krishna, one of the most original voices of contemporary Indian philosophy, writes that “Gandhi is as rare as…a Shakespeare or a Michelangelo”...
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Toward a New Dharma of Peace, Health, and Global Well-Being
Peace is generally seen as absence of conflict, like health is seen as absence of disease. However, when we review Vedic literature, peace, and...
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A Theocentric Argument for Animal Personhood in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta
The discourse on non-human animal personhood is at once ontological and axiological; it can involve a proposal of (what are taken to be) ontological...
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The Phenomenon of Emotions in Indian Philosophical System: Some Reflections
This paper shall make an attempt to critically reflect on the conceptualization of emotions in the Indian Philosophical systems. To bring out the...
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Slender Waists and Severed Breasts: The Construction of Female Bodies and Feminine Subjectivities in Vaiṣṇava Bhakti Poetry
This article explores the ways in which the sexed body and its gendered subjectivity are constructed and expressed by Vaiṣṇava devotional poets of...
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A Jungian Psychohistorical Theory: An Interpretive Tool for History
The chapter aims to explain a Jungian psychohistorical theory as an interpretive tool to analyze psychological reasons for the rapid growth of the...