Vedanta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources

Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of Brajvasidas’s Prabodhacandrodaya Nataka
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-106318-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

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This volume considers the Prabodhacandrodaya Nataka (c. 1760 CE), an allegorical drama composed by Brajvasidas in Brajbhasa. It contributes to the study of vernacular natakas with its first complete English translation. Moreover, the critical analysis shows that the foundational Sanskrit texts for Vedanta and those for Bhakti play a part in the Prabodhacandrodaya Nataka’s philosophical and religious edifice. At the same time, the investigation demonstrates that Brajvasidas expresses several philosophical ideas by adaptively reusing the Ramcaritmanas by Tulsidas (c. 1574 CE). Brajvasidas composes a doha by combining one line of his invention with a line from the Manas. This method is employed throughout all the personified metaphysical concepts. That Brajvasi not only read Bhakti but also Vedanta through the Ramcaritmanas highlights the philosophical and literary creativity in 18th c. North India. It points to the necessity to rethink the sources of Vedanta philosophies, by including works non-conventional for language and genre, because not in Sanskrit and not sastras. Such sources may not be original in their contribution per se but are essential to understand how early modern philosophy was done, conceived and transmitted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pastore, Rosina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hindu-Texte: Veden, Upanishaden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Rosina Pastore
, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Schweiz.

Rosina Pastore, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Schweiz.