3. CHAPTER 10 SURANA'S PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER 10 SURANA'S PHILOSOPHY

The poet not an Advaitin - His leanings in Kalaurnodayam not a simple mask - Surana not committed to Advaita in his other works - Not a follower of Pratyabhijna School of Kashmir - the poet only a Visıstadvaitın. pp. 214 - 224.

CHAPTER 11 VISISTADVAITA AND ITS THEORY OF BEAUTY Epistemology of Visistādvaita - Pramēya - Prakrtı and Kāla - Nityavibhūt - Dharmabhūtajana - Jiva - Isvara - Nature of Beauty according to Visistadvaita - Beauty, the quality of the Absolute - Comprses truth goodness, knowledge, änanda etc. - Not the ob- ject of perception, recollection, recognition, inference analogy, presumption and negation - Realisable only through mntution - Does not evolve nor admit division - Beauty infinite - Manifests itself ın five forms, para, vibhava, vyūha, antaryāmin and arca - The two values of Beauty, intrinsic and utilitarian - The hierar- chy of arts - Artists and aesthetes mainly devotees - Theory of rasa - Abhinavagupta, Pandıtarāya - Visistadvaitin's interpreta- tion - Theory of rasa and Visistadvaita not mutually incompat- ible - The whole province of Beauty not covered by rasa. pp. 225 - 257.

CHAPTER 12 SURANA'S THEORY OF BEAUTY AND OF ITS EMERGENCE Surana's suggestion of his theory of Beauty - His concep- tion of poetry and of the emergence of Art - Critical examination of his theory - Conclusion. pp. 258 - 280. Notes pp. 281 - 315. Appendices pp. 316 - 333.