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- Title
At Home in Bengal: Paṭa, Paṭuā, and the Performance of Kṛṣṇa's Līlā.
- Authors
Ghosh, Pika
- Abstract
This brief essay explores the emergence of a distinctive regional performance of Kṛṣṇa's biography drawing from the interpolation of local themes from a rich legacy of Gauḍīya songs and temple imagery, introducing shades of nuance to popular Bhāgavata episodes. Vernacularisation, I argue, inheres no less in the interplay of the physical properties of the scroll as medium, and the ambiguities inhering in the ever-changing entanglements of visual and verbal cues, performers, and audiences. As the Bhāgavata acquires such material and performative incarnations, takes on local landscapes and tastes, and individual episodes develop lives of their own, the unmooring of specific or explicit intertextual referencing and tenuousness of linear patterns of transmission simultaneously reinforce its authority.
- Subjects
KRISHNA (Hindu deity); HINDU gods; BHAGAVATAS; JUANG (Indic people); PURANAS. Bhagavatapurana
- Publication
Journal of Hindu Studies, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
1756-4255
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhs/hiy017