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- Title
Authority and Auspiciousness in Gaurana's Lakṣaṇadīpikā.
- Authors
JONES, JAMAL
- Abstract
Moving beyond poetry's affective and semantic powers, south Indian rubrics of poetic analysis often examined poetry's metaphysical dimensions . The poeticians of the Telugu country developed an especially rich body of work in this field, elaborating an analysis of auspiciousness in poetry and classifying minor genres of praise poetry called cāţuprabandha wherein auspiciousness was particularly important. This article focuses on one witness to that tradition, the Lakşaņadīpikā of Gaurana (fl. ca. 1375-1445 CE) . Previous scholars have cited the Lakşaņadīpikā as exemplifying this particular strand of thinking in poetics in Andhra and contiguous regions This paper concentrates on the metaphysical evaluation of poetry offered in the Lakşaņadīpikāas a way of detailing its sources and its place in the history of Sanskrit poetics more generally. Gaurana's work is shown here to constitute an attempt at revising and reinforcing this analytical method by linking it to wider Sanskritic traditions of scholarship and ritual, specifically tantra and astrology. Ultimately, the paper argues that Gaurana's project was meant to support a larger social argument for brahmanical prerogatives in the domain of poetic work
- Subjects
SOUTH India; HISTORY of poetics; TELUGU literature; SANSKRIT language; POETS
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2019, Vol 139, Issue 2, p397
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.2.0397