Vedānta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources: Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of Brajvāsīdās’s Prabodhacandrod
Rosina Pastore, "Vedānta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources: Philosophical and Religious Dimensions of Brajvāsīdās’s Prabodhacandrod"
English | ISBN: 3111063186 | 2023 | 374 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3111063186 | 2023 | 374 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume considers the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka (c. 1760 CE), an allegorical drama composed by Brajvāsīdās in Brajbhāṣā. It contributes to the study of vernacular nāṭakas with its first complete English translation. Moreover, the critical analysis shows that the foundational Sanskrit texts for Vedānta and those for Bhakti play a part in the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka’s philosophical and religious edifice. At the same time, the investigation demonstrates that Brajvāsīdās expresses several philosophical ideas by adaptively reusing the Rāmcaritmānas by Tulsīdās (c. 1574 CE). Brajvāsīdās composes a dohā by combining one line of his invention with a line from the Mānas. This method is employed throughout all the personified metaphysical concepts. That Brajvāsī not only read Bhakti but also Vedānta through the
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