Poets at Various Social Positions in the History of Indian Literature

印度文学史上处于不同社会地位的诗人

• 批准号: 09610528
• 负责人: MIZUNO Yoshifumi
• 金额: $ 1.92万
• 依托单位: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2000)The Eastern Institute (1997-1999)
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1997 至 2000
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-09610528/
• 关键词: History of Indian Literature; poet; Sanskrit

It has been known through the studies by Indologists in various countries that many kinds of poets made the history of Indian literature. Each of them had different titles, such as suta, bhat and pauranika. It is still inapparent, however, how they shared their roles for composing, chanting or singing poetry and whether a poet was able to shift his role to another one or not.In this study, we tried to make the functions of those poets in a society clear and to find how they contributed to the cultural intercourse between different social classes.In order to get a lot of biographical data of the Indian poets, we started to read some parts of Sanskrit kavya texts, but the data seemed so inauthentic that we changed the way and read the works describing a poet assembly at a royal court.Through the description in such works as Srikanthacarita, we could find that intellectuals of various occupations cantillate poetry at the poet assembly at a royal court and that even the poet who usually works at a temple can join such a assembly. This fact suggests that a poet had a possibility to be employed by a king or an emperor and that the social position of a poet was capable to be changed.

通过各国印度学家的研究可知，多种类型的诗人共同创造了印度文学史。他们每个人都有不同的头衔，如苏塔，巴特和宝拉尼卡。然而，他们在诗歌创作、吟诵和歌唱方面的角色如何分工，以及诗人能否转换角色，至今仍不清楚。本文试图弄清这些诗人在社会中的作用，并探讨他们如何为不同社会阶层的文化交流做出贡献。我们开始读梵文的一些经文，但是这些资料看起来很不真实，于是我们换了一种方式，读了描述一个皇家宫廷诗人集会的作品。通过Srikanthacarita等作品的描述，在皇家的诗人集会上，我们可以看到各行各业的知识分子吟诗，甚至连通常在寺庙工作的诗人也可以参加。这样的大会。这一事实表明，诗人有可能受雇于国王或皇帝，诗人的社会地位是可以改变的。