Problem emocji w piśmiennictwie sanskryckim ; The problem of emotions in Sanskrit literature

The subject of the article is emotionality in the literature of ancient India, including the status of emotions and their cultural conditions, and the ways of expressing emotions in the most important Indian literary language - Sanskrit - in relation to its specificity. Terms referring to emotional states are unique to a given culture, because culture shapes the evaluation of emotions, which in turn affects the image of emotionality present in the language. When studying the issue of the expression of emotions in Sanskrit, we examine written texts - ancient, highly canonised and stylised, rich in symbolic content and references to mythology. Sanskrit literature is therefore characterised by a certain stiffness in terms of emotionality - emotions are more often described than expressed. Philosophical-religious literature tends to avoid the subject of emotion altogether, while classical poetry is dominated by fiction of a highly artistic form, in which formal stylistic devices are the most important. On the other hand, the lexicon describing emotions is highly developed and astonishing in its abundance and richness of description, as well as in its long, elaborate compositions. In this paper I attempt to sketch a picture of emotions in Sanskrit literature and to identify the elements that condition them.