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URL:https://chanakyauniversity.edu.in/events/special-guest-lecture-on-narr
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SUMMARY:Special Guest Lecture on ‘Narrative Analysis of Bhāgavata
 Purāṇa’ by Dr. Shakuntala Gawde
DESCRIPTION:About the Speaker\n\nDr. Shakuntala Gawde\, Associate Professor
 and former Head in the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Mumbai\,
 is an accomplished academician\, researcher\, and educator with a dedicated
 tenure spanning over a decade. A gold medallist in both B.A. and M.A.
 (Sanskrit)\, Dr. Gawde’s M.Phil and PhD is also in Sanskrit. Her areas of
 interest span across Vedānta\, Hinduism\, Religious Studies\, Purāṇa
 Studies\, and Aesthetics and has lent her expertise as a resource person to
 courses on Upaniṣads\, Leadership Science\, and Aesthetics. In
 recognition of her outstanding contributions\, Dr. Shakuntala Gawde was
 honoured with the prestigious Academisthan Best Teacher of the Year Award
 in September 2021. Her extensive publications\, include a recent book
 titled ‘Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana’\, 3 edited books and 3
 co-edited books apart from articles in national and international
 journals\, and chapters in encyclopedias. Her completed projects include
 those on ‘Bhāgavata Purāṇa’ and
 ‘Govardhanamahatmya’.\n\nAbstract of the Lecture\n\nBhāgavata
 Purāṇa is the most popular text in the Purāṇic genre. Bhāgavata
 Purāṇa is a storehouse of legends\, discourses\, philosophical theories
 and bhakti principles. Bhāgavata is woven into the structure of the
 ‘grand narrative’ wherein stories are intricately woven through the
 placement of interlocutors within a grand narrative framework. The
 Bhāgavata is characterised as a multilevel narrative\, often embedding two
 to three narrative layers within a single storyline\, thereby creating a
 complex and dynamic storytelling structure. It is a ‘multilayered’ and
 ‘multidimensional’ narrative\, as it has attracted commentators from
 different schools of philosophy to write commentaries.\nThe lecture will
 explore different narrative styles and techniques used in the Bhāgavata
 Purāṇa\, demonstrating how these tools aid in decoding its textual
 depth. Through selected examples\, the discussion will illustrate the
 applicability of Indian and Western narrative frameworks.
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CATEGORIES:Indian Knowledge Systems
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