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''Literary Usage of Emotions in the Sanskrit Literature. Dialogue between Theory and Practice in Dandin's Daśakumāracarita''

« Usage littéraire des émotions dans la littérature sanskrite : dialogue entre théorie et pratique dans le Daśakumāracarita »

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The concept of emotion, the nomenclatures that identify and differentiate emotions, as well as the symptoms that translate them, are intellectual and cultural constructions. Ancient India developed a theory of emotions on which is based a theory of aesthetics intended to provide both a set of rules and techniques useful for artistic creation, and a framework for the analysis of literary works. The Sanskrit court poetry (kāvya) fits into this perspective, and interacts with theoretical literature. This is the case of the Daśakumāracarita (Adventures of the Ten Princes), the “novel” attributed to Daṇḍin (7th–8th CE), who, to describe the emotions of his characters, constantly uses the lexicon of the Nāṭyaśāstra and the body language advocated in this treatise. This article contains a detailed analysis of a well-known passage of the novel, the beginning of the fifth chapter, the text of which is given and translated word to word. The royal garden into which Pramati has been transported while sleeping by his mother’s magic, is depicted as a theatrical stage where the knot of his own emotions, and of those of the princess he meets there, gives rise to the psychological process whose fulfillment will lead to the happy outcome of a plot both erotic and political—i.e. where the conquest of the world rests on the conquest of love. The theatrical aspect of the whole passage is connected to the significance of emotions in this process: the theatre is the very place where emotions arise, evolve and transform things. The explicit dialogue between theory and creation, analysed through a close survey of the vocabulary, constitutes in itself, as often in India, an essential element of the rhetorical framework leading to literary pleasure: theory is not only effective through the techniques it teaches, but it also becomes a source of beauty for itself.
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hal-03161219 , version 1 (31-01-2023)

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Sylvain Brocquet. « Usage littéraire des émotions dans la littérature sanskrite : dialogue entre théorie et pratique dans le Daśakumāracarita ». Bulletin d'Études Indiennes, 2022, 35, pp.19-48. ⟨hal-03161219⟩
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