By Yigal Bronner
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Beginning within the 6th century C.E. and carrying on with for greater than one thousand years, a rare poetic perform was once the trademark of an enormous literary move in South Asia. Authors invented a distinct language to depict either the plain and hidden aspects of disguised or twin characters, after which used it to relate India's significant epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously.
Originally produced in Sanskrit, those twin narratives finally labored their means into nearby languages, particularly Telugu and Tamil, and different creative media, akin to sculpture. students have lengthy brushed off simultaneous narration as an insignificant interest, if no longer an indication of cultural decline in medieval India. but Yigal Bronner's severe Poetry successfully negates this place, proving that, faraway from being a meaningless hobby, this difficult, "bitextual" approach either transcended and reinvented Sanskrit literary expression.
The poems of simultaneous narration teased and estranged present conference and showcased the interrelations among the tradition's foundational texts. through targeting those achievements and their reverberations via time, Bronner rewrites the background of Sanskrit literature and its aesthetic ambitions. He additionally expands on modern theories of intertextuality, which were principally limited to Western texts and practices.
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9 But the early tendency of poets to repeat such homophonous twins only underscores their relative indifference to using them with both meanings intended simultaneously. The initial preference for yamakas had partly to do with the fact that such rhymes were originally associated with versified poetry. Sanskrit kāvya originated in verse form. a in subandhu’s prose l ab One must be cautious, of course, when asserting that a Sanskrit author or work was the first to set a new trend, given the likely loss of earlier materials and the immense difficulty in dating what has been preserved.
It is this intimate knowledge of the language, rather than its “natural” characteristics, that uniquely empowered Sanskrit poets to exploit the language’s phonetic ambiguities. Likewise, the fact that South Asian orthographies all represent euphonic combinations, and that words are written differently in different phonetic contexts—supposedly making written Sanskrit more ślesa friendly—is by no means determined by the language’s phonetics, but is precisely the result of the grammarians’ investigation of its phonetic structure.
Consequently, the following chapters offer a skeletal narrative that closely examines only representative works. My hope is that this approach is not 18 introduction without its benefits and that it will allow the reader to experience, firsthand, some of these unique poems without losing sight of their context. Chapters 2 through 5 provide the main historical account of bitextual literary production. Chapter 2 discusses the first vast experiments with ślesa in the prose works of the sixth and seventh centuries.