Having thanks to the quick availability of David Shulman's "Notes on Camatkāra"
been able to go through the article, I noticed that, although en passant touching on
the meaning of this term in the philosophical system of Pratyabhijñā, he predominantly
concentrates on its originally (thanks to Abhinavagupta) not altogether unrelated
employment in later alaṅkāra contexts. For the sake of scholars with a
considerable
interest in comparative philosophy, such as Matthew Kapstein (who requested a pdf
of the article in the present context), it may be remarked that the most
important
reference provided in Tāntrikābhidhānakośa
II: 231 under the lemma camatkāra is
actually
to note 23
of Prof. Torella's The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of
Utpaladeva
with the Author's Vṛtti (1994: 118f.).
Unfortunately, Shulman does not display any awareness of Torella's masterful work.
In the context of Utpaladeva's Pratyabhijñā philosophy camatkāra, as Torella explains,
has a profound significance in connection with realizing/re-cognizing one's Self,
one that "goes beyond that relative and momentary transcendence that one has in
the aesthetic experience of poetry and the theatre" (ibid.). He provides a number
of adumbrative terms, introducing these by saying "[t]he terms with which it is
glossed or with which it is closely related may be grouped according to its principal
components:
cognition, bliss, wonder."
Given Matthew's primary field, let me add that camatkāra in the Pratyabhijñā context
closely resembles that of ṅo mtshar as employed by Kloṅ chen pa and other
rDzogs chen philosopher in the Tibetan context.
Aware of the largely common geographical origin of modes of thinking that
subsequently was turned into parallel systematic philosophical developments,
this may not be altogether surprising.
Naturally, this sphere has received hardly any independent attention
by Western philosophers. Yet, there actually is a rather astonishing focus
in one of Heidegger's works. In volume 45
Grundfragen der Philosophie. Ausgewählte "Probleme" der "Logik"
of Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe, (II. Abteilung: Vorlesungen 1925-1944),
those interested in this ontologically attuned aesthetico-phenomenological context
will find a long § 38 with 15 subsections (pp. 165-181) titled:
"Das Wesen des Er-staunens als der in die Notwendigkeit des anfänglichen Denkens
nötigenden Grundstimmung".
Best wishes,
Hartmut Buescher
.
Thanks to all who have responded. The wonderful Indologists have so far sent me one copy for each of the three eyes of Śiva!
Camatkāra indeed!
Matthew
Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
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Is a PDF of the article available?
Matthew T. Kapstein
EPHE, Paris
The University of Chicago
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Shulman, David, 2010. Notes on Camatkāra. Pp. 249-276 in: David Shulman (ed.), Language, ritual and poetics in ancienty India and Iran. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
mailto:indology@list.indology. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<info >> wrote:
Dear Raffaele,
If you do a search of the Muktabodha digital library e-text collection. http://muktalib5.org/digital_library_secure_entry.htm
and do a search of the e-texts for <camatkAra>
(Note the < and > in the search term tell the digital library you are using Kyoto-Harvard transliteration.) you will get a large number of references to camatkAra. Most are later than the date you are asking about but its possible some might be earlier if you are lucky.
Best wishes,
Harry Spier
mailto:indology@list.indology. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Raffaele Torella via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info<info >> wrote:
Studies on Some Concepts of Alankara Shastra by V Raghavan at
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.495255/2015. 495255.STUDIES-ON.pdf
has a chapter on Chamatkaara
mailto:indology@list.indology. www.academia.edu/info >> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for early (i.e. pre-Ānandavardhana) occurrences of the term camatkāra.
Thanks for any help.
Raffaele Torella
Prof. Raffaele Torella
Chair of Sanskrit
Sapienza University of Rome
raffaeletorella <http://www.academia.edu/raffaeletorella >
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