動物の恋は人を感動させるのか : インド古典美学における〈動物を拠り所とする情趣〉の価値

Can the Love of Animals Evoke an Aesthetic Impression in the Reader?: The Poetic Value of ‘rasa Founded on Animal Emotions’ in Classical Indian Aesthetics

SHIBA Yūto

比較論理学研究

The Annals of the Research Project Center for the Comparative Study of Logic

[PISSN] 1880-6376

[NCID] AA12025285

Indian classical literature is renowned for its rich portrayal of animal emotions. Poets convey a rasa (aesthetic sentiment) by describing particular emotions of animals to a competent reader (sahrdaya). Two major interpretations exist among the poeticians (ālaṃkārika) regarding the poetic value of this type of rasa founded on animal emotions. Some consider such a rasa genuine, while others consider it spurious (i.e., a rasābhāsa, ‘pseudo-rasa’). The followers of the latter position often hold the view that such a pseudo-rasa conveys an impropriety (anaucitya). This impropriety, as a poetic flaw (doṣa), negatively impacts the aesthetic quality of a poem. However, the poetician Jagannātha (ca. 17th c. CE) maintains that even the spurious manifestation of a rasa may have some poetic merit, if, that is, it serves to convey another rasa, thereby fostering some property of a character of the poetry. This specific quality is reminiscent of a poetic quality known as vaiśeṣikaguṇa.

jpn

広島大学比較論理学プロジェクト研究センター

Research Project Center for the Comparative Study of Logic, Hiroshima University