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WarandPeaceinIndianLiteratureandCulture
oftheproceedingswasdelayed;theeditorsareverypleasedtofinallypresent
theminthisvolume.Itcontainsthirteencontributions,mainlybytheseminar’s
participants,allofwhichexploredifferentaspectsofthestateandsocietyofthe
Indiansubcontinentintimesofwarandpeacethroughoutitshistory,asreflected
initsliteratureandculture.
ThevolumebeginswitheightpapersbasedonSanskritsources,whichhave
beenarrangedinroughlychronologicalorder.
JoannaJurewicz(UniversityofWarsaw),inherpaper4WarandMysteryof
GodintheR
̥gveda’,usesbothcognitivelinguisticsandphilologicalmethodsto
demonstratehow,fortheVedicpeople,theexperienceofcontactwithadifferent
cultureandwarmotivatedthinkingaboutGodandthecreationofthemanifestworld.
InthefollowingtwocontributionsweturntothetwogreatSanskritepics.In
herpaper4BattleatKurukṣetraintheEyesofBharataWomenasDescribedinthe
StrtparvanoftheMahóbhórata’,KlaraGöncMoačanin(UniversityofZagreb)
discussestheaftermathoftheMahóbhóratawarasdepictedintheepic’sBookof
theWomen,withparticularattentiongiventothepresentationofthemothersand
wivesofthefallenwarriorslamentingtheirdeath.Similarly,MariolaPigoniowa
(UniversityofWrocław),inherpaper4TheFather,theSon,andtheLament:
BetweentheRómóyanaandtheAeneid’,whileprovidingadetailedcomparative
analysisofthepresentationoftwoimpiouswarriorsltheruleroftheróksasa
demonsRāvanaintheRómóyanaandtheEtruscankingMezentiusinVergil’s
LatinepicAeneidlfocusesparticularlyonbothcharacters’lamentationsafter
thedeathoftheirrespectivesons,IndrajitandLausus,eachslainwhilefighting
ontheirfathers’behalf.
ThepaperbyMarcoFranceschini(UniversityofBologna)4WarandPeace
MirroringOneAnotherinSanskritPoetry’drawsattentiontoanumberofstanzas
fromClassicalSanskritliterature(kóvya)lsomeofthem,however,astheauthor
convincinglyargues,modelledonversesfromthetwogreatSanskritepicslin
whichcontrastingimagestypicalofwarandpeacetimearebroughttogetherby
usingthestylisticdevicesreferredtoinClassicalIndianliterarytheoryasupamó
(simile),rūpaka(metaphoricalidentification)orślesa(pun).
ClassicalSanskritliteraryworksalsoconstitutethemainbasisofthenext
fourcontributions.ChettiarthodiRajendran(UniversityofCalicut),inhispaper
4WarandPeace:Bānabhaṭṭa’sPerceptionsintheHarsacarita’,discussesthe
depictionofmilitarycampaignsandtheiraftermathinafamouscourtprose
(gadyakóvya)masterpieceoftheseventhcenturyad.Inherpaper4Political
Metaphorsinthemahókóvya:TheConceptualMetaphorthestateisapoemin
Māgha’sŚiśupólavadha’,AnnaTrynkowska(UniversityofWarsaw)usesmethods
drawnfromcognitivelinguisticstoexamineanovelmetaphorcreatedbyMāgha
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