TY  - GEN
AU  - Pollock, Sheldon
TI  - Rasa reader : classical Indian aesthetics  
SN  - 9780231173902
U1  - 111.850954 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia Univeristy Press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
PREFACE	XI
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	XIX
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF SANSKRIT TITLES	XXI
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	XXIII
Introduction: An Intellectual History of Rasa	1
CHAPTER ONE
The Foundational Text, c. 300, and Early Theorists, 650-1025	47
1.	The Basis of Rasa Theory in Drama	47
Treatise on Drama of Bharata (c. 300)	47
2.	Rasa as a Figure of Speech in Narrative Poetry: The Early Views	55
Ornament of Poetry of Bhamaha (c. 650)	55
Looking Glass of Poetry of Dandin (c. 700) with the Commentaries Ratna's Glory	58
of Ratnashrijnana (c. 950) and Guarding the Tradition of Vadijanghala (c. 950)
3.	Rasa as a Figure of Speech: The Late View	65
Essential Compendium of the Ornament of Poetry of Udbhata (c. 800) with the Brief	65
Elucidation of Pratiharenduraja (c. 900) and the Exegesis of Tilaka (c. 1100)
4.	Rasa as the Character's Emotion, and How We Know It	74
Commentary on the Treatise on Drama, of Bhatta Lol lata (c. 825)	74
Commentary on the Treatise on Drama, of Shri Shankuka (c. 850)	77
5.	There Are No Rules for the Number of Rasas	84
Ornament of Poetry of Rudrata (c. 850) with Notes of Namisadhu (1068)	84
6.	Rasa Cannot Be Expressed or Implied, Only "Manifested"	87
Light on Implicature of Anandavardhana (c. 875)	87
7.	Rasa Cannot Be a Figure of Speech; It Is What Figures of Speech Ornament	98
The Vital Force of Literary Language of Kuntaka (c. 975)	98
8.	There Can Be No "Manifestation" of Rasa	106
Analysis of "Manifestation" of Mahima Bhatta (c. 1025)	106
CHAPTER TWO
The Great Synthesis of Bhoja, 1025-1055	110
1.	One Rasa Underlies All Multiplicity	110
Necklace for the Goddess of Language of Bhoja (c. 1025) with the Commentary	110
of Bhatta Narasimha (undated)
2.	One Rasa Underlies All Multiplicity: The Late Statement	119
Light on Passion of Bhoja (c. 1050)	119
CHAPTER THREE
An Aesthetics Revolution, 900-1000	144
1.	From Rasa in the Text to Rasa in the Reader: Core Ideas	144
Commentary on the Treatise on Drama, and Mirror of the Heart of Bhatta	144
Nayaka (c. 900)
2.	From Rasa in the Text to Rasa in the Reader: Elaboration	154
The Ten Dramatic Forms of Dhanamjaya (c. 975) and the Observations of	154
Dhanika (c. 975), with The Lamp (on the Ten Forms) of Bahurupa Mishra (undated) and the Brief Annotation (on the Observations) of Bhatta Nrisimha (undated)
CHAPTER FOUR
Abhinavagupta and His School, 1000-1200	181
1. Rasa and the Critique of Imitation	181
Literary Investigations of Bhatta Tota (c. 975)	181
2.	The Theory of Rasa Purified	187
The New Dramatic Art, of Abhinavagupta (c. 1000)	187
3.	Potential Flaws of Rasa	224
Light on Poetry of Mammata (c. 1050) with the Commentaries of Shridhara	224
(c. 1225), Chanclidasa (c. 1300), Vishvanatha (c. 1350), and Paramananda Chakravartin (c. 1500)
4.	The Purified Theory in Abstract	235
Short Explanation of Light on Poetry, and Commentary on Analysis of	235
"Manifestation" of Ruyyaka (1150)
CHAPTER FIVE
Continuing the Controversies Beyond Kashmir, 1200-1400	239
1.	Where Is Rasa? Is Rasa Always Pleasurable?	239
Mirror of Drama of Ramachandra and Gunachandra (c. 1200)	239
The Single Strand of Vidyadhara (c. 1300) with the Central Gem of Mallinatha	247
(c. 1400)
Ornament of the Fame, of King Prataparudra of Vidyanatha (c. 1320) with
The Jewel Store of Kumarasvamin (c. 1430)	255
2.	A Philosophical Precis of the Rasa Problematic	261
Mirror of Literary Art of Vishvanatha (c. 1350) with The Eye of Anantadasa	261
(c. 1400)
3.	Rethinking "Semblance of Rasa"	269
The Moon on the Rasa Ocean of Singabhupala (c. 1385)	269
CHAPTER SIX
Rasa in the Early Modern World, 1200-1650	276
1.	A Reader Reading for Rasa	276
Elixir for the Rasika, of Arjunavarmadeva (c. 1215)	276
2.	A Poet Writing of Rasa	280
The River of Rasa of Bhanudatta (c. 1500)	280
3.	Devotees Experiencing Rasa	285
Pearls of the Bhagavata, of Vopadeva (c. 1300) with the Lamp for	285
Transcendence of Hemadri (c. 1300)
Divine Jewel of Ornamentation of Kavikarnapura (c. 1550) with the	290
Commentary of Lokanatha Chakravartin (c. 1690)
Ambrosial River of the Rasa of Devotion of Rupa Gosvamin (1541) with the Passage	300
Thrdugh the Impassable of Jiva Gosvamin (1541), and Treatise on Divine Love
of Jiva Gosvamin (c. 1550)
4. Vedanticizing Rasa	310
The Nectar Ocean of Literary Art of Vishvanathadeva (1592)	310
The Bearer of the Ganges of Rasa of Jagannatha (c. 1650)	314
ENGLISH-SANSKRIT GLOSSARY	327
NOTES	333
BIBLIOGRAPHY	421
INDEX	431

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