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Female Adolescence in Indian Lyric Poetry

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dc.abstract.enWhile the hero (nāyaka) of classical Sanskrit lyric poetry is, as a rule, an adult and a consummate lover, that is not the case with the heroine (nāyikā). Poets, anthologists and theoreticians of literature distinguish the various types, which differ, among other things, in their age and experience in love matters. They include the adolescent heroine, who is depicted during the process of her transformation from a little girl into a young maiden. This motif, referred to as vayaḥsaṃdhi, was also introduced into the medieval lyric poetry of north-eastern India, thanks to the famous Maithili poet Vidyāpati (14th–15th centuries CE), who used it in his songs on the adolescence of Kr̥ṣṇa’s beloved Rādhā. The paper analyses in detail selected instances of the use of the motif in Sanskrit and Maithili sources, with a particular focus on metaphors employed to explain the liminal period of adolescence to the poems’ listeners or readers.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorTrynkowska, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-28T20:29:54Z
dc.date.available2024-01-28T20:29:54Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/152983
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://zenodo.org/record/7798094
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationliterary studies
dc.publisher.ministerialUniversità degli Studi di Milano
dc.relation.bookLiminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in South Asian Literatures and Arts
dc.relation.pages237-252
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.ennāyikā
dc.subject.enadolescent heroine
dc.subject.envayaḥsaṃdhi motif
dc.subject.enRādhā
dc.subject.enclassical Sanskrit literature
dc.subject.enkāvya
dc.subject.enVidyāpati
dc.titleFemale Adolescence in Indian Lyric Poetry
dc.typeMonographChapter
dspace.entity.typePublication