The Lamp and The Jar - Essays by Krishna Rayan

Author: Krishna RayanEditor: Krishna S ArjunwadkarPublisher: Sahitya AkademiYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 255ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126013451 DescriptionThis collection of 24 essays originally spread over several years provides a background for his earlier books and shows a critical mind bringing out the potential of the basics of Sanskrit poetics in forming a body of tenets for criticism of literature in most of the Indian languages.The title of this book, The Lamp and the Jar, has its origin in the well known analogy Anandavardhanma offers to the phenomenon of the suggested sense arising out of the stated one. The use of the lamp-jar metaphor as an instrument of reflection in ninth-century Sanskrit criticism yielded several insights into the behavior of the states and suggested components of meaning. In the first place, jar was already there, the lamp only revealed it. The second observed feature of the lamp-jar relationship is that the lamp continues to shine even afte