More than Real by David Shulman
Author:David Shulman [Shulman, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-04-08T22:00:00+00:00
7.3. Sarpavaram: Bhāva Reexamined
The primary themes of the Sīmantinī story are played out, with interesting variation, in the structures of a well-known, living temple in the Godāvarī delta. The Bhāva-nārāyaṇa Svāmi temple at Sarpavaram, on the outskirts of Kākināḍa, predates the sixteenth century, as a twelfth-century pillar inscription in Tamil shows, but the crystallization of the local purāṇa and its narratives seems to have happened much later, almost certainly during the Rĕḍḍi period (fifteenth century), at the time many of the architectural features we see today were put in place.17 Thus there may well be a historical matrix underlying the themes of imaginative gender transformation and its cognitive consequences that we find in both sites, Tenkasi and Sarpavaram. Sight, insight, conscious reflection, and above all imaginative projection—such are the instruments and modes of malleable personal identity in late medieval or early modern Tamil and Telugu. We find them beautifully articulated as such if we read the temple itself as a text, no less eloquent in its own right than the narrative we have just considered.
Here is the story Sarpavaram tells of its origins and its god, Lord of Feeling and Being (bhāva)—this elusive and persistent term for affective-cognitive states replete with effective imaginative force:
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