[INDOLOGY] 2 questions

[Nagaraj Paturi]

There is no word for 'bushy' in the verse.

But  in gopucchAgraM , agram is the qualified, the topic, the focus.

For some one feeling the touch of the cow's tail from its root/beginning,
the end is a sudden change, hence a surprise.

Similarly in a kAvya, after the description of udAtta bhAvas, description
of adbhuta gives a sudden change, a surprise.

Giving details of the surprising part of the cow's tail as 'bushy' is just
for adding details, for explanation/elaboration.



On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Alfred Hiltebeitel via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleague*s*,
>
>
>
> I have two questions about a passage from the *Nāṭyaśāstra *cited in V.
> Raghava’s book,* The Number of Rasas.* The passage comes at the ed of
> Ragavan’s summary of the “adbhuta synthesis” of Nārāyaṇa, the grandfather
> of Viśvanātha.
>
> First I give it in what seems a paraphrase: “The story has to be, says
> Bharata, like a cow’s tail, bushy at the end, full of surprises. There must
> be adbhuta at the end.”
>
> Raghavan 1940, 173 cites and quotes *Nāṭyaśāstra* 20.46-47, which I give
> here in my transliteration:
>
> kAryaM gopucchAgraM kartavyaM kAvyabandhamAsAdya
>
> ye codAttA bhAvAH te sarve pRSThataH kAryAH
>
> sarveSAM kAvyAnaM nAnArasabhAvayuktiyuktAnAm
>
> nirvahaNe kartavyo nityaM hi raso ‘dbhutastajjJaiH
>
>
>
> My two questions are:
>
> 1.      I don’t see in the Sanskrit what would make the cow’s tail
> “bushy?”
>
> 2.      Can any of you tell me whether this is one of the *Nāṭyaśāstra*’s
> well-known gems, and, whether it is or not, does gopuccha occur elsewhere
> in connection with literary endings?
>
>
>
> Very best,
>
> Alf Hiltebeitel
>
>
> --
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> Department of Religion
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


Director, Indic Academy of Sanskrit and Indological Studies.

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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