Dreams have no intellectual boundaries; they creep into any and every aspect of artistic and literary material. The abundance of this material reveals how dreams have held and still hold a niche for themselves in religion, law, literature etc., how they interfered in the daily life of the dreamer, how they were perceived as paving the way to a higher spiritual or psychological development.
Dream has been variously treated in Sanskrit Literature. Its implication in the literature in all its scope such as its role in the development of plot, its treatment as one of the literary tools has so far not been attempted in an elaborate manner. The present work is a modest attempt to show their importance in the Indian literature. A survey of the treatment of dreams in various forms of Sanskrit literature Vedas, Epics, Puranas, Darsanas, Ayurvedic and Jyotisa texts and classical literature, is taken up in the present thesis which comprises of seven chapters.
Dr. B. Ramadevi, an alumina of The Presidency College, Chennai, procured her M.Phil and Ph.D in Sanskrit from the University of Madras through the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Chennai.
Her Ph.D thesis was on "Dream Motif in Sanskrit Literature" which was greatly appreciated by the examiners. She has participated in many National conferences and has produced articles besides preparing textbooks for Under-graduate Sanskrit course.
At present she is working as Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at the Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.
The Status of dreams in the realm of Philosophy has been analysed by scholars like Umesh Misra in his 'Dream Theory in Indian Thought', Ramswaroop Sastri in his 'Svapna Vijnanam' and Ramnarayan Tripathi in his 'Svapnavimarśa'. These writers have not only discussed from the point of view of the established schools of Indian philosophy, but have also gone much further, drawing material from other branches of Sanskrit literature, they are however meagrely documented.
Dream has been variously treated in Sanskrit Literature. Its implication in the literature in all its scope such as its role in the development of plot, its treatment as one of the literary tools has so far not been attempted in an elaborate manner. The present work is a modest attempt to show their importance in the Indian literature. A survey of the treatment of dreams in various forms of Sanskrit literature - Vedas, Epics, Puranas, Darsanas, Ayurvedic and Jyotisa texts and classical literature, is taken up in the present thesis which comprises of seven chapters.
The word 'svapna' is derived from the Sanskrit root svap to sleep; but it is used to designate both the content of dreaming, i.e. the images in the dream etc. and the form of dreaming, i.e. the process of sleeping and dreaming.
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