CHIKAMITSU TANIGUCHI
University of Texas
Nagoya University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 taniguchi.chikamitsu@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TRYAMBAKAR\u0100YA MAKHI\u2019S HERMENEUTICS OF THE R\u0100M\u0100YA\u1e46A<\/em>, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO R\u0100MA\u2019S MARRIAGE <\/p>\n\n\n\n This paper examines the Dharmak\u016bta <\/em>of Tryambakar\u0101ya Makhi (17th\u201318th c. CE; also known as Tryambakayajvan), a scholar associated with the Bhosale court of Thanjavur, and explores how this text attempts to read the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a <\/em>as an \u201callegory\u201d (Balasubrahmanyam 1916: ii) of dharma<\/em>. Tryambakar\u0101ya has more often been discussed in connection with the Str\u012bdharmapaddhati<\/em>\u2014a specialized Dharma\u015b\u0101stric treatise on wife\u2019s duties (cf. Leslie 1989: 12; Brodbeck 2013). However, the Dharmak\u016bta <\/em>itself has received comparatively little sustained attention and has not been closely analysed in terms of its contents, despite the interesting style noted by, among others, Raghavan (1964: 86; 1965: 111).\u00a0 The paper focuses on two sections of the text: (1) the general remarks (pp. 1\u201321), and (2) the treatment of R\u0101ma\u2019s marriage. At the outset of the Dharmak\u016bta<\/em>, Tryambakar\u0101ya sets out its interpretive program, and these opening pages, which include an explicit critique of earlier commentaries, are especially important for understanding how he frames the relation between epic and dharma<\/em>. As Balasubrahmanyam (1916: vi\u2013vii) already noted, the treatment of R\u0101ma\u2019s marriage (R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a <\/em>1,67\u201372) offers a concrete example of this interpretive procedure in practice.\u00a0 By examining together the author\u2019s programmatic reflections and their application in a specific case, this paper seeks to move beyond simply showing how the text extracts normative material from the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a <\/em>and instead asks what kind of hermeneutic enterprise the Dharmak\u016bta <\/em>represents. In doing so, it aims to situate Tryambakar\u0101ya\u2019s commentarial posture and exegetical practice within early modern Sanskrit intellectual history, while also clarifying the diversity of early modern Sanskrit epic exegesis more broadly. In this respect, Tryambakar\u0101ya may be contrasted with N\u012blaka\u1e47\u1e6dha Caturdhara (17th c. CE; Banaras), whose interpretation of the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata<\/em>, as I argued in my previous paper, sought to recover forms of dharma <\/em>as internal to the epic itself rather than to impose a more overtly Dharma\u015b\u0101stric frame upon it.\u00a0 Seen within a longer history of epic exegesis, this case also reopens a larger question already present in scholarship from B\u00fchler (1892) to Kane (1962\u20131975: II.558, 684\u2013685; III.845\u2013848) and Yoshimizu (2007), especially in discussions of M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43saka reasoning about the conduct of epic characters: namely, under what conditions, and by what interpretive strategies, epic narrative could be made to function as a source of dharma <\/em>at a time when the epics were increasingly being read as texts capable of yielding normative guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHIKAMITSU TANIGUCHIUniversity of TexasNagoya University\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 taniguchi.chikamitsu@gmail.com TRYAMBAKAR\u0100YA MAKHI\u2019S HERMENEUTICS OF THE R\u0100M\u0100YA\u1e46A, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO R\u0100MA\u2019S MARRIAGE This paper examines the Dharmak\u016bta of Tryambakar\u0101ya Makhi (17th\u201318th c. CE; also known as Tryambakayajvan), a scholar associated with the Bhosale court of Thanjavur, and explores how this text attempts to read the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a as an \u201callegory\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2313","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2313\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}