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      Indian Intermedial Poetics: the Sanskrit Rasa-Dhvani Theory

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      Cultura
      Peter Lang GmbH
      Rasa, Dhvani, Rasa-Dhvani, post-Vedic texts, Sanskrit poetics

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          Rasa, Dhvani and Rasa-Dhvani are the major critical terms in Sanskrit poetics that developed during the post-Vedic classical period. Rasa (lit. juice) is used by a sage named Bharata (c. 4 th C. B.C. – 1 st C. A.D.) to denote the aesthetic experience of a theatrical audience. But Anandavardhana (9 th C. A.D.) and Abhinavagupta (10 th C. A.D.) intermedialize this experience by extending it to a reader of poetry. They argue that rasa is also generated by a linguistic potency called dhvani. Some critics like Bhoja (11 th C. A.D.) also proposed generation of rasa by pictorial art, and further, some modern critics propose to trace dhvani property in non-verbal arts such as dance and music pleading thereby that these non-verbal arts also generate rasa. The present essay examines these arguments and concludes that generation of rasa is confined to only the audio-visual and verbal arts such as the theatre and poetry, and, dhvani as a specific linguistic potency, is strictly confined to the verbal arts. Its intermedialization is a contradiction in terms.

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          Journal
          CUL
          Cultura
          Peter Lang GmbH
          1584-1057
          2065-5002
          2016
          : 13
          : 2
          : 13-18
          Affiliations
          Sambalpur University, Odisha, India anantasukla@ 123456hotmail.com
          Article
          10.3726/b10729_13
          f81f22de-6c9f-4eb3-bb9c-e5a584c17de0
          © Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2016
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          Pages: 6

          Philosophy of culture
          Rasa,Dhvani,Rasa-Dhvani,post-Vedic texts,Sanskrit poetics
          Philosophy of culture
          Rasa, Dhvani, Rasa-Dhvani, post-Vedic texts, Sanskrit poetics

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