This paper focuses on a mid-eighteenth-century work by Sāvantsingh, the poet prince of Kiśangaṛh, who wrote under the pen name of Nāgarīdās and is famous as the sponsor of the Kiśangaṛhī miniatures. The text under discussion is Śrīmad-Bhāgavata-Pārāyaṇa-Vidhi-Prakāśa, “Spotlight on the Ceremonies for a Full Recitation of the Holy Bhāgavata [Purāṇa].” This work documents a religious festival where a full reading of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa took place, organized by Sāvantsingh himself in the monsoon season of the year 1742. Contrary to what the title might lead us to expect, very little attention is given to the particulars of the recitation; rather, we get a transcript of the poetry composed by courtiers for the occasion and read at the beginning and at the conclusion of the rites. I have been able to identify some of the participants in a contemporaneous miniature, thus providing us with a visual image of the poets. In this paper, I analyze how the poems respond to one another and what this tells us about early modern poetry gatherings. I argue that such gatherings share many characteristics in common with contemporaneous mushā‘irahs in what was then the new, popular medium of Urdu poetry (called Rekhtā at the time), as described in Tazkirahs.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavata-Pārāyaṇa-Vidhi-Prakāśa：早期现代诗歌工作坊？

本文重点介绍了 18 世纪中期 Kiśangaṛh 诗人王子 Sāvantsingh 的作品，他以 Nagarīdās 的笔名写作，并作为 Kiśangaṛhī 缩影的赞助商而闻名。正在讨论的文本是 Śrīmad-Bhāgavata-Pārāyaṇa-Vidhi-Prakāśa，“聚焦完整背诵神圣薄伽梵 [Purāṇa] 的仪式。” 这部作品记录了一个宗教节日，在那里完整阅读了 Bhāgavata Purāṇa，由 Sāvantsingh 在 1742 年的季风季节组织。朗诵；取而代之的是，我们得到了朝臣们为这个场合所写的诗歌抄本，并在仪式开始和结束时阅读。我已经能够识别出同时代缩影中的一些参与者，从而为我们提供了诗人的视觉形象。在这篇论文中，我分析了诗歌如何相互回应，以及这告诉我们关于早期现代诗歌聚会的什么。我认为，如塔兹基拉 (Tazkirahs) 中所描述的，此类聚会与当时流行的乌尔都语诗歌（当时称为 Rekhtā）的新流行媒介中的同时代 mushā'irahs 具有许多共同特征。