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ROLE OF ELITE MERCHANTS IN PROMOTING BRAJBHASHA LITERARY CULTURE

    1 Author(s):  SHREEKANT KUMAR CHANDAN

Vol -  5, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 878 - 884  (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

In studies on literary culture, the gaze of the scholar is often fixed on the members of political ruling class who patronized the poets and played critical role in the promotion of a literary culture. This research paper is a departure from such an intellectual practice and tries to highlight the role of mercantile elite in promoting brajbhasha literary culture in both roles, as patron and sometime as poet themselves. In the following paragraphs, with the help of Banarsidas and Dev ‘s literary career and their literary oeuvre, we would try to disentangle the web of mercantile patronage to brajbhasha literary culture and its cultural and political implications.

  1.   See, Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
  2.   Laghu Kok refers to a treatise on the art of love, usually attributed to a Pandit named Kokkoka, who wrote a text on erotics called the Ratirahasya in the twelth century CE. Rohini Chaudhary argues that the Laghu Kok is perhaps a shortened version of this work or perhaps of another text by kokkoka.
  3.   There are two versions of this text.  It was a lexicon or a dictionary which listed words of similar meanings. According to Dr. Mukund Lath, Banarsi must have studied the Sanskrit Namamala by Dhananjaya with his teacher Pandit Devdutt. Dhananjay was a Jain scholar who lived in the ninth century CE and his namamala consists of 200 verses. Later, Banarsidas also composed his own Namamala enlisting Sanskrit and Hindi words in 175 dohas or couplets in Samvat 1670 (CE 1613). 
  4.   It was a lexicon or a dictionary listing words with more than one meaning which Banarsidas studied along with the Namamala. 
  5.   A text on astronomy and astrology.
  6.   This text has not been identified.
  7.   P.73, tr. Rohini Choudhary
  8.   P.77, ibid.
  9.   P.111. Rohini Chaudhary
  10.   Banarsidas, Ardhakathanak, tr. Rohini Choudhary P.141

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