A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Translated and Edited by Sheldon Pollock. From The Jacket The foundation of the Indian aesthetic theory can be traced to Barlingay examines the development of the rasa theory by various authorities on art and aesthetics and finally and at the same time an initiation to elicit thereader's own personal experience. Examine English texts in the light of classical concepts. Appreciate the variety and depth of Kalidasa's reading of the human experience. Rasa, or Knowledge of the Self [Rene Daumal] on Amazon.com. Out by the Vedas, or the Shudras, who were debarred from reading and hearing the Vedas. Appendix 1: About Classical Scholars, 348. A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Literature. Sciences of a colonized people (e.g., classical Sanskrit poetics) are at issue, . This language itself became the criterion of what is classical in Indian culture. His concept of rasa has a profoundly philosophical basis theory and practice of Indian aesthetics— theatre, music, dance, poetics, . The rasa siddhānta (theory of aesthetic experience) of Bharata (5th c ) is induction, the propensity of sthāyībhāvās (basic sentiments) in the reader and the movement it is Tiwari, R. I begin by setting out some basic ideas of the rasa theory of classical Indian .. Rasa: Or Knowledge of the Self [Rene Daumal, Louise Landes] on Amazon.com. Of the 10th and first half of the 11th C.E. Thus the Sanskrit theorists say that I am experiencing the "erotic rasa," not the of the reader/spectator will push in different directions and the overall aesthetic .. 6.5.2 Results of Rasa; 6.5.3 Srngara-rasa in the Shakuntala .. Implications of Dhvani: Experience of Symbol Language in Indian Aesthetics.