Kṛṣṇa Goes to War: Translating The <italic>Bhāgavata</italic>’s Battle Scenes.
This paper examines the depiction of battle scenes in a singular dated and undispersed illustrated manuscript of the Latter Half of the Tenth Book of the <italic>Bhāgavata Purāṇa</italic> (1688), inscribed with an action-oriented Brajbhāṣā text. While certain conventions and compositional devices ar...
| Published in: | International Journal of Hindu Studies Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 105 - 123 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2018
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| Summary: | This paper examines the depiction of battle scenes in a singular dated and undispersed illustrated manuscript of the Latter Half of the Tenth Book of the <italic>Bhāgavata Purāṇa</italic> (1688), inscribed with an action-oriented Brajbhāṣā text. While certain conventions and compositional devices are consistently used throughout the manuscript to evoke the drama and chaos of warfare, each battle is nevertheless individualized with the narrative unfolding along a distinctive trajectory. The broader goal is to understand how the narrative is transformed as it is translated. |
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