TY - JOUR

T1 - Poetics and Morality in the opening verses of the Surathotsava and the Kīrtikaumudī (texts, translations and remarks)

AU - Sarkar, Bihani

PY - 2014/6/1

Y1 - 2014/6/1

N2 - This article is a continuation of a study published in AOH 66/1 (2013), pp. 25–45 entitled “What makes a good poet according to Someśvaradeva? Poetic merit, demerit and the ethics of poetry in the Surathotsava and the Kīrtikaumudī”. It provides the texts and the first English translations of several verses concerning ethics (Surathotsava 1.1–1.64 and Kīrtikaumudī 1.1–1.47) by the 13th-century poet Someśvaradeva, which had formed the basis of the analysis in that study. The edited texts here improve upon the older published versions, and, in the case of the Surathotsava, utilise textual variants and glosses to difficult puns not given in the printed text, by additionally taking into account two manuscripts.

AB - This article is a continuation of a study published in AOH 66/1 (2013), pp. 25–45 entitled “What makes a good poet according to Someśvaradeva? Poetic merit, demerit and the ethics of poetry in the Surathotsava and the Kīrtikaumudī”. It provides the texts and the first English translations of several verses concerning ethics (Surathotsava 1.1–1.64 and Kīrtikaumudī 1.1–1.47) by the 13th-century poet Someśvaradeva, which had formed the basis of the analysis in that study. The edited texts here improve upon the older published versions, and, in the case of the Surathotsava, utilise textual variants and glosses to difficult puns not given in the printed text, by additionally taking into account two manuscripts.

KW - Sanskrit poetry

KW - ethics of mediaeval Sanskrit poetry

KW - satire

U2 - 10.1556/aorient.67.2014.2.5

DO - 10.1556/aorient.67.2014.2.5

M3 - Journal article

VL - 67

SP - 215

EP - 248

JO - Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

JF - Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

SN - 1588-2667

IS - 2

ER -