The Competing Canons of Anandghan Eighteenth-century Brajbhasha Poetry in Manuscript Circulation
Streszczenie
The study of A n a n d g h a n’s transmission presents a case to examine how early
modern manuscript circulation in north India was effected when a radically new idea
appeared on the literary scene. The Vaishnava renunciate A n a n d g h a n (c. 1700–1757)
in his quatrains wrote about love towards a person whom he called Sujan, a word
having both Persianate and Indian undertones. By the use of this word, he emphasised
continuity between mundane and divine love. Although this approach was rejected by
his religious community and later even by A n a n d g h a n himself, his poetry became
widely appreciated in north India and many of the most innovative Hindi poets in the
coming centuries are indebted to him. The four extant early collections of his poetry
were prepared under the influence of the A n a n d g h a n debate in A n a n d g h a n’s
lifetime or shortly after. Taking two other, now lost, anthologies into account the article
examines the development of the corpus of A n a n d g h a n’s quatrains into six collections,
manipulated to present either a more religious or a more secular A n a n d g h a n.
Collections
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