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207 Ādi Granth, 75 Adorno, Theodor, 47 Ananta, 53, 174n17 An . ga, 31, 32, 33 anyokti (allegory), 7, 28–29, 164n27 Āryāsaptaśatī. See Govardhana— Āryāsaptaśatī Auerbach, Erich, 6, 49 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 190n51 Balarāma, 1, 47, 48, 118 Ballālasena, 28, 125 Bān . a, 65, 170n68 Basset, Susan, 105 Bengal: localization in, 9, 10; origin of, 13; Turkish invasion of, 4–5, 22, 160n1 Bengali: emergence of, 2, 13; Śrīkr . s .n . akīrttana as oldest example of, 13, 94; style, 65–66 Benjamin, Walter, 72 bhakti poetry, 76, 81, 82 Bhāmaha, 157n16 Bhartr .hari, 63, 64 Bhavabhūti, 53–54, 65, 170n68 Bidbadballabh, Basanta Ranjan Ray, 186n15 Bilhan . a, 122, 123, 166n39 bitextual verse. See śles .a (bitextual verse) Bloch, Marc, 17 Bourdieu, Pierre, 156n14 Bronner, Yigal, 169n59, 175n17 Caitanya, 14 Cālukya Vikramāditya VI, 122, 123, 166n39 Can . d . īdās, Bad .u, 3, 94 Can . d .īdās, Bad .u—Śrīkr . s .n . akīrttana: audience of, 110, 113; city-country theme in, 8, 100–102; concerns and tensions regarding manual labor in, 95–99; correspondences with Caryāpada in, 106–9; correspondences with Gītagovinda in, 2, 14, 79, 91, 103, 104, 105–6, 119, 147–54; discovery of, 13–14, 95, 186n19; embodies contradiction, 113; high becomes low in, 110, 112, 113, 119– 20; important to understanding the Sena court, 14–15; influence of narrative structure of, 111–12; is non-courtly, 103; as oldest specimen of Bengali, 13, 94; opening of, 93–94; parallel to works of Sena salon, 113; as provincial/uncosmopolitan work, 94, 114; remembers courtly culture that was more or less dead, 119; signatory bhan . ita verse in, 81; summary of story of, 92–93; teleological interpretation of, 90; as a vulgar kāvya, 89–90, 91, 113; a weird poem for a small world, 114 Caryāpada (Caryāgīti), 13, 81, 103–4, 106–9, 155n6 Chakrabarti, Kunal, 27–28 Chattopadhyaya, B.D., 9, 161–62n9 Chattopadhyaya, Bankim Chandra, 2, 76 Cola empire, 31, 32, 33 Della Volpe, Galvano, 7, 48–49, 156n14 Dhoyī, 15, 33, 34–39, 43, 77 Index 9780520957794_PRINT.indd 207 9780520957794_PRINT.indd 207 01/02/14 4:28 PM 01/02/14 4:28 PM 208 • index feeling, structures of, 8, 157n22 Freud, Sigmund, 75, 82 Gahad .avālas dynasty, 123 gaud . ī style, 65–66, 68 Gaud .īya Vais .n . ava movement, 4, 11, 75–76 Gerow, Edwin, 79–80 Gītagovinda. See Jayadeva—Gītagovinda Govardhana: claims invention of new poetry, 65; claims to have dragged Prakrit into Sanskrit, 1, 11, 59; compared with Man ̇ kha, 68–69; as devoted realist , 7–8; as heart of the Sena literary world, 118; as most radical Sena poet, 15–16; reference to his work as defying gravity, 1–2, 6; significance of, 69–70; verses in Saduktikarn . āmr . ta attributed to, 86, 133–34, 168n54; verses in Śārn ̇ gadharapaddhati attributed to, 135 Govardhana—Āryāsaptaśatī: about a shift in literary cultural life, 71; about contradiction and change, 71; bitextual verse in, 50–51; as careful imitation of Hāla, 11, 59; cast of characters of, 55; consistency with classical standards of, 58; consists of contradiction and is about contradiction, 118; contradiction of rural and urban comportment in, 7–8; counter poetic of, 54; country and city in, 59–62; descriptive simplicity of, 68; embodies shift within state, 70; eroticism in, 8, 53–54, 56; exploration of lowness in, 52–53; high and low consolidation trope of, 15, 51–52; introductory statement of, 47–48; Jayadeva on, 5; metapoetic commentary in, 1–2, 51, 54, 66–69, 71, 118; mundane colloquialisms in, 52–53; pervasive social injustice in, 64; poetic antigravity or antigrandeur in, 52; radical innovation of, 59; realist vignettes of aristocratic households in, 49, 55–58; real social experience underlies , 54; rhetorical minimalism of, 54; Śan . karamiśra on, 77; underhanded indecency in, 53; use of myths in, 48, 50, 51; wealth and social power in, 62 Gun . ād .hya, 65 Hāla, 11, 48, 58–59 Hars .a, King, 65, 66, 122, 123 hyperglossia, 2, 155n3 Ingalls, Daniel, 6–7, 175n19, 176–77n36 Jagannātha Pan . d .itarāja, 28–29, 73, 74–75 Jameson, Fredric, 122 Jayadeva: contemporaries of, 161n8; on Govardhana, 5; on himself, 5; popularization of, 117; as possible tutor to kings, 85; reference to social and political circumstance of his times by, 10; thought of as vernacular poet-saint, 75...

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