'Abhisarika' - the Heroine Proceeding to a Tryst as Seen by Indian Theoreticians of Literature

• Authors: Sudyka L.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper shows very briefly a fascinating story of the long-lived subject of the 'nayika-bheda', taking as the telling example the 'abhisarika' category. The 'Natya-sastra' is the earliest source mentioning different types of 'nayikas' and 'nayakas'. The association of god Indra (Mind) and the 'nayaka' of each and every performance, understood as the sacrifice on the one hand and the identification of 'Sarasvati' (Speech) and the 'nayika' on the other, has been shown by M.K. Byrski. These are the roots of the classification of heroes and heroines, as usual a hidden part of any phenomenon, the most difficult to discover and describe. The fruit born later, after transferring the subject into the field of 'alamkara-sastra' and love poetry, will be discussed in the present article.

Keywords

EN

'ABHISARIKA' - INDIAN LITERATURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 130-146
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sudyka L.

• L. Sudyka, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Filologii Orientalnej, al. Mickiewicza 9/11, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04118029