Papers by Ariadna Matyszkiewicz
Resisting and justifying changes II Testifying and legitimizing innovation in Indian and Ancient Greek Culture, ed. by Elisabetta Poddighe and Tiziana Pontillo. - Pisa : Pisa university press, 2023. – (Nuova biblioteca di Studi classici e orientali; 7), 2023
Jinasena’s Ādipurāṇa is a voluminous work from the 9th century CE, which along with its second pa... more Jinasena’s Ādipurāṇa is a voluminous work from the 9th century CE, which along with its second part Uttarapurāṇa, written by Jinasena’s pupil Guṇabhadra in late 9th century CE, represents the Jain universal history genre built upon life stories of 63 illustrious men (Śalākāpuruṣa). Untypically for this genre of Jain texts, the work is not only written entirely in Sanskrit, the language of both Jinasena’s prior Brahmanical background and the Rāṣṭrakūṭa court at which he served under the protection of king Amoghavarṣa I1, but also employs a broad spectre of discoursive and literary devices characteristic of Sanskrit itihāsa-purāṇa, śāstra, and mahākāvya works. In Ādipurāṇa, several of these devices, representing the ruling Sanskrit culture, are synthesized and transformed in accordance with the distinctive aesthetics designed by the Digambara Jain author for the narrative illustrating the principles of his faith. The study aims to identify and describe them in relation to the primary purport of the work, which is an eulogistic explication of the Jain dharma. Its another objective is to present the Sanskrit narrative devices and their innovative synthesis constructed by Jinasena as a variety of grand narrative patterns, which implement large explanatory and normative schemes with the aid of persuasive techniques designed to create a sense of grandeur.
Oriental Studies: Global and Local Perspectives, 2022
The study investigates the notion of atiśaya within the 10th cent. Sanskrit
treatise on literary ... more The study investigates the notion of atiśaya within the 10th cent. Sanskrit
treatise on literary theory ( alaṅkāraśāstra), Vakroktijīvita by Kuntaka. It opens with introducing the discourse of atiśaya inferable from the works on alaṅkāraśāstra that precede Vakroktijīvita and then moves on to examine the relevant views of Kuntaka in relation to the intellectual tradition around which his literary theory is structured. This forms a background that allows seeing all the veins through which atiśaya enters the core of Kuntaka’s theory in order to be elaborated and transformed into a confluence point of many verbal attempts to grasp the most intense aesthetic experience, which, according to the author of Vakroktijīvita, defines literature ( kāvya) as such. Findings of the study offer a new insight into Kuntaka’s work, shed some light on the incomprehensible
elements of the preceding accounts of atiśaya, and constitute a frame of reference for interpretations of kāvya literature that would engage the concept of ‘pre-eminence’.
Brihatsamhita (Bṛhatsaṃhitā) Warahamihiry (Varāhamihira) to sanskryckie kompendium z VI wieku nas... more Brihatsamhita (Bṛhatsaṃhitā) Warahamihiry (Varāhamihira) to sanskryckie kompendium z VI wieku naszej ery, programowo mające obejmować zagadnienia z zakresu astrologii naturalnej (nauki o omenach). Ze względu na przyjęte w nim szerokie rozumienie pojęcia omenu oraz wielką erudycję samego autora dzieło to przyjęło formę para-encyklopedyczną, w której paradygmat astrologii zostaje poszerzony o informacje z różnych dziedzin wiedzy. Bogactwo treści Brihatsamhity wprzęgnięte jest w ramy konsekwentnej ontologii opartej na astrologicznym systemie porządkowania rzeczywistości. Przekaz kompendium zyskuje siłę perswazji za sprawą estetyzacji treści, utrzymanej w duchu literatury kawja (kāvya), a zarazem czerpiącej obficie z repertuaru mitów i symboli zakorzenionych w literaturze wedyjskiej i rapsodycznej, często twórczo przetworzonych i rozbudowanych przez samego autora. W celu zarysowania ontologii Brihatsamhity tłumaczenia fragmentów dzieła popieram objaśnieniami kategorii, w ramach których ...
Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies, vol. LXXV, No 1, pp. 99-116, 2022
The poetics of the Sanskrit ornate epic (mahākāvya), recognized as the most prestigious genre of ... more The poetics of the Sanskrit ornate epic (mahākāvya), recognized as the most prestigious genre of Sanskrit kāvya literature, significantly rely on literary devices creating the sense of grandeur. The aim of this study is investigate the notion of atiśaya discussed by early works on Sanskrit literary theory and to identify it as a focal term within a discourse explicating the poetics of grandeur characteristic of mahākāvya genre. The here introduced distinction between atiśaya and hyperbole enables to capture the specificity of literary grandeur in mahākāvya compositions and elucidates the broader matter of 'excess' in the Sanskrit literature.
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2018
This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) ... more This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) with the Longinian notion of the sublime, belonging to the literary-rhetorical tradition of the classical (Western) antiquity. It characterizes descriptions of mountains and oceans employed in the mahākāvya genre within the theoretical context of the "grand narrative" specified by Sanskrit literary theorists. The practice of Sanskrit poets characterized in this way is compared with the prerequisites of grand style, understood by Pseudo-Longinus as an actualization of the proto-aesthetic category of the sublime.
The article serves as an interpretive introduction to the Polish translation of Mattavilāsa. Info... more The article serves as an interpretive introduction to the Polish translation of Mattavilāsa. Informative remarks are intertwined into a short synopsis of the entire play. They introduce the traditionally recognized author of Mattavilāsa, king Mahendrawarman I, and familiarize the reader with the literary, religious, and philosophical context of the work. Apart from providing the necessary background for understanding all the aspects of the play, the article proposes a unifying interpretation of its contents
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2018
This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) ... more This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) with the Longinian notion of the sublime, belonging to the literary-rhetorical tradition of the classical (Western) antiquity. It characterizes descriptions of mountains and oceans employed in the mahākāvya genre within the theoretical context of the "grand narrative" specified by Sanskrit literary theorists. The practice of Sanskrit poets characterized in this way is compared with the prerequisites of grand style, understood by Pseudo-Longinus as an actualization of the proto-aesthetic category of the sublime.
The aesthetic category of the sublime, as expounded by Western discourse, is built upon the precu... more The aesthetic category of the sublime, as expounded by Western discourse, is built upon the precultural experience of awe and the idea of greatness derived from that experience� Accordingly, it may be treated as a potentially universal category that comes in several cultural variants� The aim of this study is to present a methodology in which the material sublime is used to systematise and analyse a variety of literary techniques that constitute the persuasive force of Sanskrit grand narratives (itihāsas, purāṇas, and mahākāvyas)� The model of the material sublime described here is meant to be compared and supplemented with elements of Sanskrit literary theory�
The pattern of collection, which characterizes the classical Indian though in general, may serve ... more The pattern of collection, which characterizes the classical Indian though in general, may serve as a strongly persuasive literary device. In that role it is often employed in Sanskrit grand narratives, specifically, in Hindu epics, purāṇas, and ornate epic poems (mahākāvya). The study seeks to examine the conceptual grounds, figurative realisations and persuasive ends of this pattern in Jinasena's (9 th century CE) Ādipurāṇa, an important text of the Digambara Jain tradition. Jinasena's work represents the genre of Jainpurāṇas, which combines and modifies the generic properties of the afore mentioned Sanskrit grand narratives.
This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) ... more This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahākāvya) with the Longinian notion of the sublime, belonging to the literary-rhetorical tradition of the classical (Western) antiquity. It characterizes descriptions of mountains and oceans employed in the mahākāvya genre within the theoretical context of the "grand narrative" specified by Sanskrit literary theorists. The practice of Sanskrit poets characterized in this way is compared with the prerequisites of grand style, understood by Pseudo-Longinus as an actualization of the proto-aesthetic category of the sublime.
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Papers by Ariadna Matyszkiewicz
treatise on literary theory ( alaṅkāraśāstra), Vakroktijīvita by Kuntaka. It opens with introducing the discourse of atiśaya inferable from the works on alaṅkāraśāstra that precede Vakroktijīvita and then moves on to examine the relevant views of Kuntaka in relation to the intellectual tradition around which his literary theory is structured. This forms a background that allows seeing all the veins through which atiśaya enters the core of Kuntaka’s theory in order to be elaborated and transformed into a confluence point of many verbal attempts to grasp the most intense aesthetic experience, which, according to the author of Vakroktijīvita, defines literature ( kāvya) as such. Findings of the study offer a new insight into Kuntaka’s work, shed some light on the incomprehensible
elements of the preceding accounts of atiśaya, and constitute a frame of reference for interpretations of kāvya literature that would engage the concept of ‘pre-eminence’.
treatise on literary theory ( alaṅkāraśāstra), Vakroktijīvita by Kuntaka. It opens with introducing the discourse of atiśaya inferable from the works on alaṅkāraśāstra that precede Vakroktijīvita and then moves on to examine the relevant views of Kuntaka in relation to the intellectual tradition around which his literary theory is structured. This forms a background that allows seeing all the veins through which atiśaya enters the core of Kuntaka’s theory in order to be elaborated and transformed into a confluence point of many verbal attempts to grasp the most intense aesthetic experience, which, according to the author of Vakroktijīvita, defines literature ( kāvya) as such. Findings of the study offer a new insight into Kuntaka’s work, shed some light on the incomprehensible
elements of the preceding accounts of atiśaya, and constitute a frame of reference for interpretations of kāvya literature that would engage the concept of ‘pre-eminence’.