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- Title
Black Curls in a Mirror: The Eighteenth-Century Persian Kṛṣṇa of Lāla Amānat Rāy’s <italic>Jilwa-yi ẕāt</italic> and the Tongue of Bīdil.
- Authors
Pellò, Stefano
- Abstract
This paper is the first substantial study of the <italic>Jilwa-yi ẕāt</italic>, an unabridged Persian verse translation of the tenth <italic>skandha</italic> of the <italic>Bhāgavata Purāṇa</italic>, completed in Delhi in 1732-33 by Amānat Rāy, a Vaiṣṇava pupil of the influential poet-philosopher Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Qādir Bīdil. The paper focuses especially on the textualization of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇaite devotion within the framework of Persian literary conventions and the dominant Ṣūfī-Vedāntic conceptual atmosphere, with a special attention for the intertextual ties with the works of Bīdil. A few philological remarks on the contours of a hitherto largely ignored Kṛṣṇaite subjectivity in Persian are also included.
- Subjects
PURANAS. Bhagavatapurana; SKANDHAS; KRISHNA (Hindu deity); PERSIAN poetry; TRANSLATIONS
- Publication
International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2018, Vol 22, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
1022-4556
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11407-018-9226-4