scholarly journals Examining the Shifting Paradigms of Bhakti and Sanskrit Literature through Devotional Poetry of Jayadeva and Dadu

Author(s):  
Aditi Swami ◽  
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Manju Dhariwal ◽  

The wave of the Bhakti movement significantly affected India for over a period of twelve centuries. Considering that it left inerasable impressions on the history and culture of the land, this research paper argues that what only imbibed the feeling of pure devotion also became a tool in the hands of those who were desirous of radical religious, political and social changes. To prove this, the paper undertakes the translation of Dadu Dayal’s Sanskrit compositions. Additionally, the paper also questions the very model of Bhaktikal (the Age of Devotional Literature), propagated by the scholars of Hindi Literature, which divides it into two distinct theological categories, Sagun and Nirgun. By examining the devotional poetry of Jayadeva Goswami and Dadu Dayal, and their sectarian positions, it demonstrates that the proponents of the two diametrically opposite schools of Bhakti did not always honour such a distinction for bhakti’s spirit is above such schisms.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-90
Author(s):  
Namrata Chaturvedi

This paper focuses on exploring dhvani as a hermeneutical tool for reading Christian devotional literature. Dhvani is a theory of poetic suggestion proposed by Ānandavardhana in the eighth century and elaborated upon by Abhinavagupta in the eleventh century that posits layers of semantics in poetic language. By focusing on the devotional poetry of the seventeenth-century religious poets of England, this paper argues for Ānandavardhana’s proposed poetics of suggestion as an enabling way of reading and cognizing devotion as a psycho emotive process. In the context of Indian Christianity, dhvani has been suggested by certain scholars as also enriching the possibilities of interfaith dialogue. This paper argues for incorporating poetic frameworks like dhvani as modes of interfaith dialogue, especially when reading Christian texts in India.


Author(s):  
Asha Devi

The love of nature of Hindi writers is well known. Poetry has been composed on nature in all times during the ancient, medieval and modern times. The famous cinematic poet Jayashankar Prasadji writes-Let me forget my sailor slowly - where in the uninhabited deep-tinged love story in the ears of Sagar-Lahiri-Ambar - Avni of Taj BabelThe poet has here pointed out the peace of man. Humanity is not noisy, nor does he want such an earth. Nature has loved human as (wave of ocean) and (abar). This is what it is like, why is it, who is destroying the unbreakable relationship between human and nature. What are the conditions that are making the earth persist? A terrible environmental crisis is looming over us all. What should we do now .We all know that in Indian culture, nature is like a necklace in the bracelet, but when the great crisis is showing the destruction of this culture, then our values ​​of life, which teach us to love nature, should be cherished in Vedic era It is happening in the verses of the Vedas that we see the feeling of gratitude towards fire, sun, moon, air, water, earth, sky and clouds. Sanskrit literature is full of beautiful scenes of nature. There nature is companion, friend and its all. हिंदी साहित्यकारों का प्रकृति-प्रेम सर्वविदित है। आदिकाल , मध्यकाल और आधुनिककाल सभी कालों में प्रकृति पर काव्य-रचनाऐं होती रहीं । प्रसिद्ध छायावादी कवि जयशंकरप्रसादजी लिखते हैं-ले चल मुझे भुलावा देकर मेरे नाविक धीरे-धीरे-जहाँ निर्जन में सागर-लहरी-अंबर के कानों में गहरी-निच्छल प्रेमकथा कहती हो--तज कोलाहल की अवनि कवि ने यहाँ मानव की शांतिप्रियता को इंगित किया है ।मानव कोलाहलप्रिय नहीं है, और न ही वह ऐसी धरती चाहता है।( सागर की लहर) और (अबंर) के रूप में प्रकृति ने भी मानव से प्रेम ही किया है ।आज विचारणीय विषय यह है कि फिर ऐसा क्या है, क्यों है, कौन है जो मानव और प्रकृति के अटूट संबंधों को तहस-नहस कर रहा है । वे कौन सी परिस्थितियाँ लगातार बनती रही हैं जो धरती विदीर्ण कर रही हैं । एक भयावह पर्यावरणीय संकट हम सब पर मँडरा रहा है । अब हमें क्या करना चाहिए ।हम सभी जानते हैं कि भारतीय संस्कृति में प्रकृति कंगन में नग की भाँति जडी है पर जब बड़ा संकट इस संस्कृति के विनाश का दिखाई दे रहा है तो ऐंसे में वैदिककाल से सँजोए हमारे जीवन-मूल्य, जो हमें प्रकृति से प्रेम करना सिखाते हैं, समाप्त हो रहे हैं वेदों की ऋचाओं में हमें अग्नि,सूर्य, चंद्र, वायु, जल, पृथ्वी, आकाश और मेघों के प्रति कृतग्यता का भाव दिखाई देता है । संस्कृत-साहित्य तो प्रकृति के मनोहारी दृश्यों से भरा पड़ा है ।वहाँ प्रकृति मानव की सहचरी,सखी और उसका सर्वस्व है ।


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Jayasmita Kuanr

The sensation produced by nature has been key factor for the development of Gita Govinda. Gita Govinda is a nest lyrical drama of Sanskrit Literature. Gita Govinda is best characterized as a dramatic lyrical poem. It is expressed as a cycle of songs interspersed with recitative metrical forms of classical Kavya verses functioning as independent grammatical and aesthetic entities. The foremost objective of this research paper is to analyze the impacts of Gitagovinda on Odishan spiritualism with its different aspects. The objective of the study is also to explore the spiritual reincarnation of Jayadeva's Gitagovinda and its relevance in contemporary literature. Its poetic greatness is enhanced by its appeal of music, poetry and mystic spiritual content. This is a theoretical research paper, where through review of literature and historic research methods secondary data have been used for the analysis. The study is both empirical and descriptive.


Author(s):  
Htay Htay Win ◽  
Aye Thida Myint ◽  
Mi Cho Cho

For years, achievements and discoveries made by researcher are made aware through research papers published in appropriate journals or conferences. Many a time, established s researcher and mainly new user are caught up in the predicament of choosing an appropriate conference to get their work all the time. Every scienti?c conference and journal is inclined towards a particular ?eld of research and there is a extensive group of them for any particular ?eld. Choosing an appropriate venue is needed as it helps in reaching out to the right listener and also to further one’s chance of getting their paper published. In this work, we address the problem of recommending appropriate conferences to the authors to increase their chances of receipt. We present three di?erent approaches for the same involving the use of social network of the authors and the content of the paper in the settings of dimensionality reduction and topic modelling. In all these approaches, we apply Correspondence Analysis (CA) to obtain appropriate relationships between the entities in question, such as conferences and papers. Our models show hopeful results when compared with existing methods such as content-based ?ltering, collaborative ?ltering and hybrid ?ltering.


This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
J. G. Bradbury

This essay explores Charles Williams’s use of the Arthurian myth to sustain a religious worldview in the aftermath of sustained attacks on the relevance and veracity of Christian belief in the early twentieth century. The premise to be explored is that key developments in science and philosophy made during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in a cultural and intellectual milieu in which assertions of religious faith became increasingly difficult. In literary terms this became evident in, amongst other things, the significant reduction in the production of devotional poetry. By the late 1930s the intellectual environment was such that Charles Williams, a man of profound religious belief who might otherwise have been expected to produce devotional work, turned to a much older mode, that of myth, that had taken on new relevance in the modern world. Williams’s use of this mode allowed him the possibility of expressing a singularly Christian vision to a world in which such vision was in danger of becoming anathema. This essay examines the way in which Williams’s lexis, verse structure, and narrative mode builds on his Arthurian source material to allow for an appreciation of religiously-informed ideas in the modern world.


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