Poetry As Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir

Zusatztext The book is well argued, and the author has richly annotated his text with generous illustrations on almost every page of the book in the form of translations along with the original Sanskrit text in the footnotes. Informationen zum Autor Hamsa Stainton is Assistant Professor in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. He studied South Asian religions at Columbia University (Ph.D., 2013), Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S., 2007), and Cornell University (B.A., 2004). His co-edited volume (with Bettina Sharada Bäumer), Tantrapuspañjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir; Studies in Memory of Pandit H.N. Chakravarty, was published in 2018 by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Klappentext This book investigates the history of a popular genre of Sanskrit devotional poetry in Kashmir: the stotra, or hymn of praise. Focusing on literary hymns from the eighth century to the twentieth, it studies the close link between literary and religious expression in South Asia¿the relationship between poetry and prayer. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the history of a popular genre of Sanskrit devotional poetry in Kashmir: the stotra, or hymn of praise. Focusing on literary hymns from the eighth century to the twentieth, it studies the close link between literary and religious expression in South Asia--the relationship between poetry and prayer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Stotra Literature: An Overview 3. Literary Hymns from Kashmir 4. Poetry as Theology 5. Poetry as Prayer 6. Stotra as Kavya 7. Devotion as Rasa 8. Stotra as Tradition 9. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Hamsa Stainton, Hamsa (Assistant Professor Stainton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190889814
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088981-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: AAR Religion in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Sanskrit, POETRY / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, Hinduism, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Prayers & liturgical material, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Prayers and liturgical material, Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir