Haravijaya and Kapphiṇābhyudaya: The Two Surviving Mahākāvyas from 9th-Century Kashmir

Ratnākara的《Haravijaya》和Kakivasvāmin的《Kapphi ābhyudaya》是两部从9世纪克什米尔幸存下来的mahākāvyas或史诗宫廷诗。它们代表了其体裁发展的高点，其特点是使用高度精炼的语言和丰富的诗歌手段，以及其作者的全面学习。除了是独特的艺术作品外，它们和它们的评注一起，是印度思想和社会发展的重要见证。我已经对《Haravijaya》进行了广泛的研究，为它的50个章节中的3个编写了文本和评注的评论版本，这些版本在纳入进一步的材料和适当的修订之后，建议作为专著出版。此外，获得的重要手稿材料的其余大部分仍然没有得到研究，因此拟议项目的第二个目标是制作其最重要证人的完整外交记录。关于Kapphi bhyudaya，迄今为止还没有评论。这一空白尤其体现在它的那些部分，这些部分是有史以来印度华丽诗歌中最复杂的部分。今年一月，我可以接触到唯一的一份关于迦毗罗毗荼耶的注释手稿，它在西藏保存了不知多少个世纪。这份注释的重要部分的评论版的制作将是该项目的第三个也是最重要的贡献。

Ratnākara’s Haravijaya and Śivasvāmin’s Kapphiṇābhyudaya are the two mahākāvyas or epic court poems surviving from 9th-century Kashmir. They represent high points in the development of their genre, marked by the use of a highly refined language and a rich repertoire of poetic devices, as well as by their authors’ display of all-round learning. Apart from being unique pieces of art, they are, together with their commentaries, important witnesses of the development of Indian thought and society.I have already worked extensively on the Haravijaya, producing critical editions of text and commentaries for three of its fifty cantos, which are proposed to be published as monographs, after the inclusion of further material and due revision. Furthermore, the important manuscript material gained access to has for its remaining major part still not been studied, thus the second aim of the proposed project is the production of full diplomatic transcripts of its most important witnesses.On the Kapphiṇābhyudaya so far no commentary has been available. This lacuna is particularly felt for those parts of it which are among the most complex pieces of Indian ornate poetry ever written. This January, the only manuscript of a commentary on the Kapphiṇābhyudaya, preserved for an unknown number of centuries in Tibet, has become accessible to me. The production of a critical edition of significant parts of this commentary will be the third and mostimportant contribution of the project.