Notes Towards Defining ‘Theory’ (Śāstra) in Sanskrit; Systematic Classification Presented in Rājaśekhara’s Kāvyamīmāṃsā

• Authors: Pażucha Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Even though the genre of śāstra is one of the most familiar and important constituents of the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia, it did not receive the proper attention and the term itself remains obscure. Also in the tradition of Sanskrit letters itself the scope and nature of śāstra, it would seem, is not precisely delineated. Using the discussion presented by Rājaśekhara, the tenth century poet and theoretician, in his Kāvyamīmāṃsā, this article will try to bring together recent evaluations of the genre with a contextualized discussion of the tradition’s selfunderstanding.

Keywords

EN

Śāstra; theory; Rājaśekhara; Kāvyamīmāṃsā; Vedas; vedāṅga-s; vidyā-s; vidyāsthāna-s; theoretical writing

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1(32)
• Pages: 97-116

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Pażucha Katarzyna

• University of Chicago, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

1643-1243