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THE BLOOMSBURY RESEARCH HANDBOOK OF EMOTIONS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY i Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy Series Editors Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, UK Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Editorial Advisory Board Roger Ames, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai‘i, USA; Doug Berger, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, USA; Carine Defoort, Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium; Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, USA; Jessica Frazier, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK; Chenyang Li, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ronnie Littlejohn, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Asian Studies, Belmont University, USA; Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada. Bringing together established academics and rising stars, B loomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy survey philosophical topics across all the main schools of Asian thought. Each volume focuses on the history and development of a core subject in a single tradition, asking how the fi eld has changed, highlighting current disputes, anticipating new directions of study, illustrating the Western philosophical signifi cance of a subject and demonstrating why a topic is important for understanding Asian thought. From knowledge, being, gender and ethics, to methodology, language and art, these research handbooks provide up-to-date and authoritative overviews of Asian philosophy in the twenty-fi rst century. Available Titles The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender , edited by Ann A. 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Howard The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language , edited by Alessandro Graheli The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Ved¯ a nta, edited by Ayon Maharaj ii THE BLOOMSBURY RESEARCH HANDBOOK OF EMOTIONS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Edited by Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar iii BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2021 Copyright © Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar, and Contributors, 2021 Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Editors of this work. For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. vii constitute an extension of this copyright page. 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ISBN: HB: 978-1-3501-6777-3 ePDF: 978-1-3501-6778-0 eBook: 978-1-3501-6779-7 Series: Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy Typeset by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk To fi nd out more about our authors and books visit w ww.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our n ewsletters . iv CONTENTS LI ST OF CO NTRIBUTORS vii AC KNOWLEDGMENTS x Introduction 1 Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar 1 Grief, Tranquility, and S ´¯ a nta Rasa in Ravi s ẹ n ạ ’s Padmapur¯ a n ạ 23 Gregory M. Clines 2 Emotions in Vi´ s i s ṭ¯ a dvaita Ved¯ a nta 49 ˙ Elisa Freschi 3 Joy as Medicine? Y ogav¯ a sis ṭ ha and Descartes on the Affective ˙ Sources of Disease 69 Ana Laura Funes Maderey 4 Some Analyses of Feeling 87 Maria Heim 5 Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, S¯ ı t¯ a , and Ya´ s odhar¯ a 107 Steven P. Hopkins 6 The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and Narrative Thought 131 Sonam Kachru v vi CONTENTS 7 Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness: Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the J ¯ ı vanmuktiviveka 153 James Madaio 8 Gesture and Emotion in Tamil S ´ aiva Devotional Poetry 173 Anne Monius 9 The Emotion that is Correlated with the Comic: Notes on Human Nature Through R asa Theory 193 Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 10 Is there a C a n˙ kam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice, and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry 213 Martha Ann Selby 11 Wretched and Blessed: Emotional Praise in a Sanskrit Hymn from Kashmir 239 Hamsa Stainton 12 Savoring R asa : Emotion, Judgment, and Phenomenal Content 255 Sthaneshwar Timalsina 13 How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude (v iveka ) in A´ s vagho s ạ’s Saundarananda 277 Roy Tzohar BI BLIOGRAPHY 303 IN DEX 325 CONTRIBUTORS Gregory M. Clines is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His research focuses on Jain R ¯ a m¯ a ya n ạ literature in Sanskrit and north Indian vernaculars and early modern Digambara Jainism in north India. He is also interested in Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory. His work has appeared in the journals R eligions , South Asian History and Culture , and the I nternational Journal of Jaina Studies (Online). Elisa Freschi works on Sanskrit Philosophy and more specifi cally on topics of epistemology of testimony, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, deontic logic, and on the re-use of texts in South Asian intellectual traditions. She is a convinced upholder of reading Sanskrit philosophical texts within their history and understanding them through a philosophical approach. She worked at the University of Vienna and as research leader of projects on Vi´ s i s ṭ¯ a dvaita Ved¯ a nta and on deontic logic and M¯ ı m¯ a m s ̣ ¯ a at the ˙ Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfi eld Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, and was educated at Reed College and Harvard University. Her recent books, Voice of the Buddha (Oxford 2018) and T he Forerunner of All Things (Oxford 2014), focus on Buddhaghosa. Her current interests center on emotions in Sanskrit and Pali texts. Steven P. Hopkins is Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Swarthmore College. His major fi eld of scholarship is South Indian devotional literature in Tamil and Sanskrit, with special attention to the work vii viii CONTRIBUTORS of medieval South Indian saint-poet and philosopher Ve n ˙ kathan¯ a tha, though he has published widely in the area of comparative religious literatures. He has published three books on Ve n ˙ ka t e´ s a with Oxford University Press, most ˙ recently T he Flight of Love (2016), and was awarded the 2010 A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation. He is currently completing a comparative study of women’s laments in Greek, Hindu, and Buddhist literatures. Sonam Kachru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the history of philosophy, with particular attention to the history of Buddhist philosophy in ancient South Asia, centering on topics in the philosophy of mind (consciousness, attention, imagination), metaphysics, and philosophical anthropology. His essays have appeared in the J ournal of Indian Philosophy ; Journal of the American Oriental Society ; Sophia , and The Journal of Religion , among other places. His fi rst book, Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. James Madaio is a fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is associate editor of T he Journal of Hindu Studies and regional editor (Indic traditions) for Bloomsbury’s I ntroductions to World Philosophies book series. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester and was previously a fellow at New Europe College (Bucharest), an affi liated researcher at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute (Chennai), and a lecturer at Charles University and the University of Maryland. Ana Laura Funes Maderey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University (ESCU) where she teaches Asian Philosophies, East-West Comparative topics in Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophies. Her research seeks to establish dialogues between phenomenology, feminism, and notions of bodily self-awareness in the Indian philosophical schools of S¯ a m k ̣ hya, Yoga, and Ved¯ a nta. She recently co-edited with Christopher Chapple the book T hinking with the Yoga S u ¯ tra: Translation, Interpretation. Anne Monius was Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, where she taught for seventeen years, educating and mentoring countless students in Tamil and Sanskrit cultures. Her undergraduate and PhD work were also from Harvard. Her research centered on the literary cultures and the histories of religion in South India. She authored I magining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil- Speaking South India (Oxford 2001). Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, and Fellow of the British CONTRIBUTORS ix Academy. His most recent books are D ivine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries , and H uman Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India . He has written over fi fty papers on a variety of topics in Indian and comparative philosophy, politics and political thought, and Indian religions. Martha Ann Selby is Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books, including T amil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ai n˙ ku r un u¯ r u (Columbia, 2011), which was awarded the A.K. Ramanujan ¯ ¯ Translation Prize in March 2014. Her translation of the short fi ction of Tamil author Dilip Kumar, C at in the Agrah¯ a ram and Other Stories , appeared in March 2020 from Northwestern University Press. She is currently preparing a full translation of the Old Tamil anthology K u r untokai for the Murty ¯ Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press. Hamsa Stainton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University. Recent publications include T antrapus p̣¯ a ñ jali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir; Studies in Memory of Pandit H.N. Chakravarty (co-edited with Bettina B ä umer; IGNCA, 2018) and Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir (Oxford 2019). Sthaneshwar Timalsina (PhD Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany) is Professor in the department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. He works in the areas of Indian Religions and Philosophies. The primary areas of his research include consciousness studies and tantric studies. Besides four books, S eeing and Appearance (Shaker Verlag, 2006); Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (Routledge, 2009); T antric Visual Culture: A Cognitive Approach (Routledge, 2015), and Language of Images: Visualization and Meaning in Tantras (Peter Lang, 2015), he has published over eighty essays and book chapters in his fi elds of research. He is currently working in the areas of time and memory, imagination, and emotion. Roy Tzohar is an associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department and the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in the history of philosophy with a focus on Buddhist and Brahmanical philosophical traditions in India. His current research deals with Buddhist notions of nonconceptuality and action, and the works of the Buddhist poet and philosopher A´ s vagho s ạ. His monograph, A Buddhist Yog¯ a c¯ a ra Theory of Metaphor (Oxford 2018), deals with Indian philosophy of language and the Yog¯ a c¯ a ra philosophy of language and experience in particular.