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Devotional Friendship [Sakhya]: Its Implication and Ramification Vis-à-vis Bengal Vaisnavism
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDE932 |
| Author: | Dr. Maya Chattopadhyay |
| Publisher: | Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2002 |
| Pages: | 174 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 8.6" X 5.6" |
| Weight | 300 gm |
Book Description
| 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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