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Religious Syncretism and Literary Innovation. New Perspectives on Bhakti and Rasas in the Vijñānagītā by Keshavdas
No full textThe Vijñānagītā (1610) is one of the last works composed by Keśavadāsa. As a work of his old age, growing apart from Rīti mannerism and courtly themes, it seems to answer to the author’s enquiry for spirituality and religious desire. The author’s literary concern is expressed in the framework of the allegory, which represents a structural device enriching the potentiality of poetic significance. The Vijñānagītā is one of the many Hindi adaptations of the Prabodhacandrodaya by Kṛṣṇamiśra, enriched with many philosophical and religious hints coming from different religious traditions. Giving up any mere translation of the Sanskrit text, the author inserts the classical allegoric drama about the war between Mahāmoha and Viveka within the religious and cultural context of the early Seventeenth century north India. The story becomes a pretext to compose a compendium of philosophy extending from classical purāṇic lore, to treatises on moral, up to the popular attitude for devotion in later Vaishavism. Some interesting influences of Bhakti can be traced out in the many quotations taken from the most disparate works, such as Yogavāśiṣṭa. Purāṇas, Rāmāyaṇa up to the Nāṭyaśāstra, allowing hypothesizing some relationship with the concepts of rasas belonging to classical aesthetics applied to the metaphysics of devotion. Dealing with a concept already theorized by Caitanya and well-known in some Vaishnava circles, he interprets the theory of aesthetic emotions in the new context of devotionalism, allowing tracing some connections between the Rīti poetry developed in the literary setting of courts and the popular Bhakti tradition, which so far had always been considered as detached from it, on the basis of different intents and expressive techniques
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The divine consort Rādhā and the goddesses of India
No full textPapers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions
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