E book Review: A Handbook of the Indian Poetics and Aesthetics
Ami Upadhyay. A Handbook of the Indian Poetics and Aesthetics. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 2017, Web pages 177, Selling price: Rs. 125/-. ISBN 978-81-7977-601-8
However desire in classical Indian poetics has been reside, nothing new appears to be to have been additional or found above the final 50 percent-a-century or far more. New books by professors of English, at best, have been repetitive. A scholar of the stature of Ananda Coomaraswamy is awaited to relate Sanskrit poetics to Western theoretical developments in the present century.
Getting stated this, I am pleased to look through by means of the ebook in hand, a “compendium of delight,” as Ami Upadhyay claims. Ami is a classical dancer and teacher of English language and comparative literature, and capable to notify us about Indian poetics and aesthetics, such as theories of Rasa, Riti, Dhvani, Vakrokti, Alankaras, Aucitya, Guna-Dosa, and many others. She of course dwells on Bharata’s Natya Shashtra and briefly touches upon other Sanskrit poeticians and theorists these types of as Dandin, Jagannatha, Kuntaka, Abhinavagupta, Ksemendra Rajasekhara, Vishwanatha, Hemendra and others, on the a person hand, and Plato, Aristotle, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and other Europeans, on the other.
Organised in three areas, the initially component seeks to determine aesthetics, poetry, and drama (Natya, Nataka and Kavya) with a quick description of the history of Indian poetics. The 2nd aspect deals with the a variety of colleges of Indian poetics, outlining the attribute features of the Rasa in the Vedas, Upanishads, and Ayurveda rasa as …