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How a Philosopher Reads Kālidāsa: Vedāntadeśika’s Art of Devotion
Journal of Indian Philosophy Pub Date : 2021-03-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s10781-021-09459-0
Shiv Subramaniam

Vedāntadeśika (c. 14th c.) is one of many Sanskrit intellectuals who wrote prolifically in both poetic and philosophical genres. This essay considers how his poetry is related to his philosophical concerns. Scholars have understood the relationship between his poetry and philosophy in a number of ways, some arguing that his poetry permitted a freer exploration of his philosophical ideas, others wishing to discuss his poems independently of his philosophy. My paper will propose a distinct way of understanding this relationship by focusing specifically on a strain of Vedāntadeśika’s poetry inspired by Kālidāsa (4th c.). Examining selections from his poetry alongside his theological writing on the nature of devotional attention, I will argue that the poetic practice Vedāntadeśika learns by reading Kālidāsa activates the same mental faculty involved in bhakti-yoga, or the devotional contemplation of god. This strain of Vedāntadeśika’s poetry thus amounts to a performance of the devotional practice he describes in his philosophical writings.



中文翻译:

哲学家如何解读卡拉迪萨:韦达塔德西卡的虔诚艺术

梵达达卡(Vedāntadeśika)(约14世纪)是许多梵语知识分子之一,他们既富有诗意又富有哲学思想。本文考虑了他的诗歌与他的哲学关注之间的联系。学者们通过多种方式了解了他的诗歌与哲学之间的关系,有些人认为他的诗歌允许对哲学思想进行更自由的探索,另一些人则希望独立于他的哲学来讨论他的诗歌。我的论文将提出一种独特的理解这种关系的方式,特别关注于受卡利达萨(4th c。)启发的韦达塔德西卡(Vedāntadeśika)的诗歌。审视他的诗选以及他关于虔诚注意力本质的神学著作, bhakti-yoga或对神的虔诚的沉思。韦达塔德西卡诗歌的这种张力因此表现出他在哲学著作中所描述的奉献实践。

更新日期:2021-03-14
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