印度古典诗学中的比喻观——以印度两大史诗为中心

On the View of Metaphor in Indian Poetics——Analysis of Two Great Epics in India

比喻是印度古典诗学"诗庄严论"中的重要内容,也是印度两大史诗中运用最为广泛的修辞手法。各类比喻不仅凸显史诗的主题,而且还体现出印度诗学、美学的核心观念。史诗中比喻之喻体的选择奇谲丰富,且宗教意味浓郁、情味十足,比喻本身亦成为重要的意义"装饰物",具有独特的美学价值和教诲功能。

Metaphor plays an important role in Indian classical poetics of alankara. It is also a rhetoric figure used most extensively in Indian Great Epics. All types of metaphors not only highlight the emotional themes of Great Epics, but also successfully embody the core concepts of Indian poetics and aesthetics. The vagarious vehicles of metaphor in Great Epics are full of religious meanings and flavor. Metaphor is an important ornament of meaning which reflects the unique Indian aesthetic virtue and it has teaching function as well.