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World of Wonders - The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa (Hardcover)
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World of Wonders - The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa (Hardcover)
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In World of Wonders, Alf Hiltebeitel addresses the Mahabharata and
its supplement, the Harivamsa, as a single literary composition.
Looking at the work through the critical lens of the Indian
aesthetic theory of rasa, "juice, essence, or taste," he argues
that the dominant rasa of these two texts is adbhutarasa, the "mood
of wonder." While the Mahabharata signposts whole units of the text
as "wondrous" in its table of contents, the Harivamsa foregrounds a
stepped-up term for wonder (ascarya) that drives home the point
that Vishnu and Krishna are one. Two scholars of the 9th and 10th
centuries, Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, identified the
Mahabharata's dominant rasa as santarasa, the "mood of peace." This
has traditionally been received as the only serious contestant for
a rasic interpretation of the epic. Hiltebeitel disputes both the
positive claim that the santarasa interpretation is correct and the
negative claim that adbhutarasa is a frivolous rasa that cannot
sustain a major work. The heart of his argument is that the
Mahabharata and Harivamsa both deploy the terms for "wonder" and
"surprise" (vismaya) in significant numbers that extend into every
facet of these heterogeneous texts, showing how adbhutarasa is at
work in the rich and contrasting textual strategies which are
integral to the structure of the two texts.
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