Towns in Kalidāsa’s Kāvyas and the Thesis of Urban Decay

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY Studies in Peoples History Pub Date : 2024-03-30 DOI:10.1177/23484489241233667
Kesavan Veluthat
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This essay tries to look at the way in which Kālidāsa approaches towns in his three kāvyas: Meghadūta, Kumārasaṁbhava and Raghuvaṁśa. Most of the descriptions are stereotypical, using stock phrases and formulaic expressions, some of them straight from texts like the Arthaśāstra. However, there is one city that is described somewhat realistically—Ayodhya, which was deserted following Rāma’s departure. Both these—the stereotypes of prosperous towns and the realism of a decayed town—fit into the pattern of ‘urban decay’ presented by historians on the basis of archaeological evidence, a landmark in Indian historiography.
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卡里达萨《卡维亚》中的城镇与城市衰败论
这篇文章试图探讨卡利达萨在他的三部卡维亚中处理城镇的方式:Meghadūta、Kumārasaṁbhava 和 Raghuvaṁśa。大部分描述都是千篇一律的,使用的都是惯用语和公式化的表达方式,其中一些直接来自《阿塔斯拉经》等典籍。然而,有一座城市的描述却有些真实,那就是在拉玛离开后被遗弃的阿约提亚。无论是对繁荣城镇的刻板印象,还是对衰败城镇的现实描述,都符合历史学家根据考古证据提出的 "城市衰败 "模式,这是印度历史学的一个里程碑。
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