Two Passing Clouds: The Rainy Season of Mīrzā Bīdil and Amānat Rāy’s Persian Version of Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.20
| Autor: | Stefano Pellò |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cultural Studies
Wet season History Amānat Rāy Bhāgavata Purāna Settore L-OR/17 - Filosofie Religioni e Storia Dell'India e dell'Asia Centrale Ancient history Bīdil Settore L-OR/10 - Storia dei Paesi Islamici Settore L-OR/15 - Lingua e Letteratura Persiana Geography Persian version Phenomenology Tur-i marifat |
| Zdroj: | Iran and the Caucasus. 24:408-418 |
| ISSN: | 1573-384X 1609-8498 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/1573384x-20200407 |
| Popis: | This paper deals with a chapter of Amānat Rāy’s Persian verse translation of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, completed in Delhi in 1732-33, and a section of the Ṭūr-i maʿrifat by his poetic and philosophical mentor Mīrzā ʿAbd al-Qādir Bīdil (1644-1720), a mathnawī describing the monsoon in a hilly region of present day Rajasthan. The aim of our brief analysis is to introduce a debate on the poetics of physis in early modern Persian literary culture, in the context of a wider project on Bīdil and nature. Through a guided reading of the two authors’ description of the cloud (abr), its interactions with the Sanskritic literary practices and conventions, and the diverse intertextual ties, we show how the connected analogical and metaphorical procedures employed create two complementary ways of dealing with the phenomenology of (natural) existence. |
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