XXXII Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 26–28 апреля 2023 г.

Россия и Восток. К 300-летию СПбГУ. Материалы конгресса 655 Литература стран Азии и Африки. Чтения памяти профессора А. А. Долининой (1923–2017) significant works of Indian medieval literature. The second part of the poem is an epic narrative based on the historical event of the siege by the troops of the Delhi Sultan Allauddin Khilji (1296‒1316) of the Rajput independent fortress of Chittor in 1303. This part of the poem reproduces in many ways the canons of the Sanskrit classics (mahākāvya) and, in part, the medieval tradition of the Rajput heroic poems (vīra-rāso) in the early modern Indian languages. However, in this poem there are descriptions that are not at all typical for the canons of the two interacting literatures, Indian and Persian. One of such places in the poem is the description of the campaign of the troops of Sultan Allauddin Khilji to besiege the fortress of Chittor, a historical episode important for the development of the plot of “Padmāvat”. In particular, the episode includes an artistic depiction of cannons, which the army carries with them, expanded into a series of stanzas: the guns are presented here in the images of seductive intoxicating beauties. Images of intoxicated beauties are found sometimes in ancient Indian literature. Modern Indian researchers even tend to compare this description with one of the episodes of the classical Sanskrit poem by Māgha (7th or 8th c.) «The Killing of Shishupala» (Śiśupālavadha). However, these episodes of the two poems have little in common: Jāyasī’s poem contains a number of features that are new to the Indian tradition. Such figurativeness is also uncharacteristic of the Persian medieval literary tradition. The report discusses the possible sources of origin of the description of the campaign of the army in the poem «Padmāvat» by Malik Muhammad Jāyasī.