Concatenation in Kālidāsa and Other Sanskrit Poets
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Concatenation, that is, the linking of successive verses of a poem by the repetition of the same or similar words, has been discussed by several scholars in relation to Vedic and Prakrit poetry, but other than a ground-breaking article published by W. Schubring in 1955, it has been insufficiently studied in classical Sanskrit kāvya. This article argues that a particular form of concatenation, involving long-distance word repetition across as many as five or even ten verses, is characteristic of the works of Kālidāsa in particular but also of Sanskrit poets in general. Like Schubring’s article, this one focuses on the Meghadūta, but uses a broader definition of scope of concatenation.
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See vol. 1, p. 218 of the Pali Text Society edition: verse 7 anuṭṭhahaṃ/8 anuṭṭhātā/9 anuṭṭhātā; 8 alasassa/9 -alaso; 9 sukham/10 sukhaṃ; 10 akammanā/11 akammena.
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Text according to Mallinson 2006: 148–152, following the edition by Chintaharan Chakravarti (Calcutta, 1926).
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Concatenation in Kālidāsa and Other Sanskrit Poets
In: Indo-Iranian JournalSearch for other papers by Richard Salomon in
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Concatenation, that is, the linking of successive verses of a poem by the repetition of the same or similar words, has been discussed by several scholars in relation to Vedic and Prakrit poetry, but other than a ground-breaking article published by W. Schubring in 1955, it has been insufficiently studied in classical Sanskrit kāvya. This article argues that a particular form of concatenation, involving long-distance word repetition across as many as five or even ten verses, is characteristic of the works of Kālidāsa in particular but also of Sanskrit poets in general. Like Schubring’s article, this one focuses on the Meghadūta, but uses a broader definition of scope of concatenation.
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