Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir

ISBN-13: 9780190889814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

Hamsa Stainton

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.