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Recognition and reversal (‘Anagnorisis’ and ‘Peripeteia’)

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(“ಮಹಾಭಾರತ”ದ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ “ಕರ್ಣಾಟಭಾರತಕಥಾಮಂಜರಿ”, “ಕೃಷ್ಣಾವತಾರ” ಮತ್ತು “ಪರ್ವ”ಗಳ ತೌಲನಿಕಚಿಂತನೆ)

ಕರ್ಣಾಟಭಾರತಕಥಾಮಂಜರಿ

(“ಮಹಾಭಾರತ”ದ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ “ಕರ್ಣಾಟಭಾರತಕಥಾಮಂಜರಿ”, “ಕೃಷ್ಣಾವತಾರ” ಮತ್ತು “ಪರ್ವ”ಗಳ ತೌಲನಿಕಚಿಂತನೆ)

ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆ

ಅರ್ಷಕಾವ್ಯಗಳೆಂದೂ ಇತಿಹಾಸಗಳೆಂದೂ ಹೆಸರಾದ ರಾಮಾಯಣ-ಮಹಾಭಾರತಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದ ಸಾರಸ್ವತಲೋಕವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಭಾವಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಮತ್ತಿನ್ನಾವ ಪ್ರಾಚೀನಕಾವ್ಯಗಳೂ ಆಯಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತಗಳ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಪ್ರೇರಿಸಿಲ್ಲ. ಈ ಮಾತು ರಾಮಾಯಣ-ಮಹಾಭಾರತಗಳಿಂದ ಪ್ರಭಾವಿತವಾದ ಗೀತ-ನೃತ್ಯ-ನಾಟ್ಯ-ಚಿತ್ರ-ಶಿಲ್ಪಾದಿಗಳಿಗೂ ಸಮಾನವಾಗಿ ಅನ್ವಯಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಹೆಚ್ಚೇನು, ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶದ ಸಮಗ್ರಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಯೇ ಇವುಗಳಿಂದ ಉಜ್ಜೀವಿತವಾಗಿದೆ.

Arthāntaranyāsaḥ

uktirarthāntaranyāsasyātsāmānyaviśeṣayoḥ | (C.L. – 119)

In Arthāntaranyāsa, a general statement is used to provide a rationale for a specific case or a specific case is used to justify a general statement.

Iliad - Book 1, lines 217-220

(Achilles says the following to the goddess Athene, who has been sent by the goddess Hera, has come down from the heaven to put a stop to his anger.)

The primary purpose of any work of art is to evoke ‘rasa’, i.e. aesthetic experience in the connoisseur. The experience of rasa is universal and holds true for all times. This is achieved in poetry through verbal expression, by portraying the emotions of characters under various circumstances and also by employing a variety of imagery. Creative expression is what distinguishes poetry from a non-poetic text. (Here, the word ‘poetry’ is used to include aesthetic expression through prose and lyrical poems).

ಉಪಕ್ರಮ

The Sanskrit Language

Our ancients sculpted a language to give perfect expression to their exuberant emotions. It has a well-developed scheme of letters and an inbuilt etymological structure that has endowed it with variety and a rare word-generation power. Being an inflected language, it is not tied down by a linear pattern of word order. It is thus highly flexible[1].

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