Złożenie sukh-duḥkh w utworach Agjeja – zastosowanie terminu we współczesnej literaturze hindi i w staroindyjskim traktacie Nāṭyaśāstra

The analysis of passages selected from Ajñeya’s works in Hindi: poems, short stories, and a drama, aims to show the context, in which the writer uses the sukh-duḥkh compound, known from the Natyashastra (Nāṭyaśāstra, 5 B. C. – 5 A. D.), an old-Indian compendium on dance and theatre written in Sanskrit, where it occurs in the meaning of “the nature of the world”. Therefore the contexts in which this very compound has been used in the Natyashastra have been analyzed. The most important one refers to the nature and process of an aesthetic experience rasa. It also occurs in passages providing characteristics of persons recollecting past events or in the state of numbness. The results of the analysis of selected Ajñeya’s works prove that he uses the sukh-duḥkh compound in convergent contexts in his works as in the Natyashastra, what has been illustrated by the quoted passages. The writer seems to be an advocate of preserving and modifying the achievements of Sanskrit poetics, including the idea of rasa, to which the term sukh-duḥkh refers as “happiness and unhappiness”, being the nature of the world, subjected to the proces of universalization in theater and in a literary work.