Are great natural objects in Sanskrit mahākāvya sublime? A preliminary study on the Loginian notion of the sublime and the practice of Sanskrit classical poets

This study seeks to compare the generic conventions of the Sanskrit ornate epic poem (mahkvya) with the Longinian notion of the sublime, belonging to the literary-rhetorical tradition of the classical (Western) antiquity.It characterizes descriptions of mountains and oceans employed in the mahkvya genre within the theoretical context of the "grand narrative" specified by Sanskrit literary theorists.The practice of Sanskrit poets characterized in this way is compared with the prerequisites of grand style, understood by Pseudo-Longinus as an actualization of the proto-aesthetic category of the sublime.