著者

鈴木 知子

出版者

日本印度学仏教学会

雑誌

印度學佛教學研究 (ISSN:00194344)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.68, no.2, pp.1092-1089, 2020

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<p>The <i>Rājataraṅgiṇī</i>, a Kashmiri royal chronicle written by Kalhaṇa in the 12^th century, consists of eight <i>taraṅgas</i> ("waves," i.e. chapters). In the 19^th century, there was a debate about the authenticity of the last two <i>taraṅgas</i>. The debate seems to have been closed by G. Bühler and A. Stein, who asserted that one and the same Kalhaṇa wrote all eight <i>taraṅgas</i>. Shortly after this discussion was over, it was revealed by an incomplete manuscript that the eighth <i>taraṅga</i> had been revised for political reasons, and the text on which Bühler and Stein had based their assertion was a revised recension. By examination of this newly found manuscript, a question arose about the authenticity of the eighth <i>taraṅga</i>, which was full of rhetorical defects. Apart from textual credibility, it should be noted that the <i>Rājataraṅgiṇī</i> is a <i>kāvya </i>governed by the <i>śānta-rasa</i> (sentiment of equanimity), as declared in the first<i> taraṅga</i>. It is the seventh <i>taraṅga</i> which ends with the tragic death of King Harṣa, that is more suitable for the concluding chapter of a <i>kāvya</i> bearing the <i>śānta-rasa</i>, rather than the eighth <i>taraṅga</i> which ends with a eulogy dedicated to the king of the time. In the 19^th century, scholars' discussions concerning the <i>Rājataraṅgiṇī</i> were focused on the authenticity of its seventh and eighth <i>taraṅgas</i>. Now, however, the issue should be revisited as a question about the authenticity of the eighth <i>taraṅga</i>.</p>