Recognition through Traditional Values: A Literary Representation of dāna as an Essential Way of Boosting Royal Worthiness

The present article is focused on the notion of dāna and its use in Śivrājbhūṣaṇ, a late 17th-century rītigranth composed by Bhūṣaṇ in the court of Śivājī Bhoṃsle, shortly before the coronation. The ruler had it composed in Braj, a vernacular that had already risen to the status of a transregional...

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Autor principal:	Piotr Borek
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	dāna generosity rājadharma Śivājī Bhūṣ aṇ, Śivrājbhūṣ aṇ Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ee2105617c7b456ea8f0233cb9cc5e752021-11-27T12:53:31ZRecognition through Traditional Values: A Literary Representation of dāna as an Essential Way of Boosting Royal Worthiness10.12797/CIS.18.2016.18.091732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/ee2105617c7b456ea8f0233cb9cc5e752021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1570https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 The present article is focused on the notion of dāna and its use in Śivrājbhūṣaṇ, a late 17th-century rītigranth composed by Bhūṣaṇ in the court of Śivājī Bhoṃsle, shortly before the coronation. The ruler had it composed in Braj, a vernacular that had already risen to the status of a transregional language. The poem, which used to be reduced by literary historians to a simple panegyric, belongs to South Asian early modern court literature, the authors of which were explicitly manifesting their fixture in Sanskrit literary tradition and simultaneously fulfilled complex political agendas. The royal patronage infused the poetry with political essence, but the literary conventions dictated the ways in which the political substance should be weaved into the poems. Basing on the textual analysis of Bhūṣaṇ’s work, I draw attention to the high frequency and various ways of use of the notion of dāna by the poet. This aims to prove that poetical representation of royal generosity embodied in various practices of dāna—liberally put to display—was one of the major tools of validating, vitalizing and bolstering royal authority. Piotr BorekKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticledānagenerosityrājadharmaŚivājīBhūṣ aṇ,Śivrājbhūṣ aṇIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 18 (2021)
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topic	dāna generosity rājadharma Śivājī Bhūṣ aṇ, Śivrājbhūṣ aṇ Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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description	The present article is focused on the notion of dāna and its use in Śivrājbhūṣaṇ, a late 17th-century rītigranth composed by Bhūṣaṇ in the court of Śivājī Bhoṃsle, shortly before the coronation. The ruler had it composed in Braj, a vernacular that had already risen to the status of a transregional language. The poem, which used to be reduced by literary historians to a simple panegyric, belongs to South Asian early modern court literature, the authors of which were explicitly manifesting their fixture in Sanskrit literary tradition and simultaneously fulfilled complex political agendas. The royal patronage infused the poetry with political essence, but the literary conventions dictated the ways in which the political substance should be weaved into the poems. Basing on the textual analysis of Bhūṣaṇ’s work, I draw attention to the high frequency and various ways of use of the notion of dāna by the poet. This aims to prove that poetical representation of royal generosity embodied in various practices of dāna—liberally put to display—was one of the major tools of validating, vitalizing and bolstering royal authority.
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Recognition through Traditional Values: A Literary Representation of dāna as an Essential Way of Boosting Royal Worthiness

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