Devotional Friendship [Sakhya]: Its Implication and Ramification Vis-à-vis Bengal Vaisnavism

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Item Code:	IDE932
Publisher:	Sarvodaya Ilakkiya Pannai, Madurai
Author:	Dr. Maya Chattopadhyay
Language:	English
Edition:	2002
Pages:	174
Cover:	Hardcover
Other Details	8.6" X 5.6"
Weight	300 gm

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations		vii
Chapter One: Introduction		1
Notes		9
Chapter Two: Devotional Friendship (Sakhya Bhakti) and God		10
I.	Bhagavat (God) and Jiva, the Individual soul	10
II.	Krsna the embodiment of Bliss, Beauty and Love	15
III.	Devotional love and friendship: the way and the goal	18
IV.	Vraja sakhya: friendship in Vraja	23
	Notes	26
Chapter Three: Bhakti as rasa and its classifications:		29
I.	The Aesthetics of bhakti and the Caitanya tradition	29
II.	Rasa, bhakti and classical poetics	38
	A. The concept of rasa	38
	B. Bhakti and the classical aestheticians	47
III.	Bhakti rasa	48
IV.	Summary	56
	Diagram I	59
	Notes	60
Chapter Four: Sakhya Bhakti in the field of aesthetic enjoyment:		77
I.	Preyan and classical poetics	77
II.	Preyan or Maitrimaya rasa, the sentiment of devotional friendship:	83
	A. Vibhavas, the determinants	84
	B. Anubhavas, the ensuants	96
	C. The Satvika bhavas	98
	D. Vyabhicari bhavas, the auxiliary feelings	100
	E. The sthayibhava, the permanent dominant emotion	101
III.	Classification of preyan or maitrimava rasa	106
	Diagram 2	109
	Diagram 3	109
	Notes	110
Chapter Five: Friendship in bhakti rasas other than preyan:		117
I.	Friendship in the secondary bhakti rasas	117
II.	The relationship of preyan with other rasas:	121
	A. Preyan as a permanent rasa	122
	B. Preyan as an auxiliary rasa	123
III.	Friendship and rasabhasa, the apparant sentiment	123
IV.	Friends and friendship in madhura, the rasa of devotional romantic love	127
	A. The male friends as the assistants	128
	B. The female friends (sakhis), sakhibhava and the kantas	131
	C. Friendship as the enhancing excitant	136
	Notes	138
Chapter Six: Conclusion		140
Notes		146
Bibliography		147
Glossary		156
Index		158

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