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{{For|Hindu mythological character|Trishanku}}
{{short description|1945 book by Sachchidananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Trishanku
| image =
| caption =
| author = [[Sachchidananda Vatsyayan]]
| title_orig = त्रिशंकु
| orig_lang_code = hi
| country = [[British Raj|British India]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| subject = Indian and Western poetics
| genre = [[Reflective writing|Reflective essays]]
| publisher =
| pub_date = 1945
}}
'''''Trishanku''''' ({{IPA-hi|triʃəŋkũ}}) is a 1945 collection of [[Reflective writing|reflective essays]] in [[Hindi]] language by Indian writer [[Sachchidananda Vatsyayan]] 'Agyeya'; that mostly deals with the concept of Indian and Western poetics.<ref name="Lal1992">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Paliwal|first=Krishnadutt|title=Trishanku|editor-last=Lal|editor-first=Mohan|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4396|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|pages=4396–4397}}</ref>

==Background==
Trishanku was Agyeya's first collection of essay that was published in various literary journals at different time. First published in 1945, it contains 16 essay.<ref name="Nagendra1976">{{cite book|author=Nagendra|title=Literary Criticism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYASAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Sarita Prakashan|location=Meerut|oclc=3011591|page=94}}</ref><ref name="Nair2000">{{cite thesis|last=Nair|first=Sheeba A|title=अज्ञेय के उपन्यासों में वैयत्त्किकता|trans-title=Individuality in the Novels of Agyeya|language=hi|type=PHD thesis|year=2000|publisher=[[University of Kerala]]|publication-place=Thiruvananthapuram|page=25|chapter=Chapter 1: Agyeya : Life and Works|chapter-url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/160771/5/05_chapter%201.pdf|hdl=10603/160771|via=[[Shodhganga]]}}</ref> It was reprinted in 1973 by Soorya Prakashan Mandir.<ref name="Ramakrishnan1995">{{cite book|author=E. V. Ramakrishnan|title=Making It New : Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi, and Hindi poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wfRmAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Studies|location=Shimla|isbn=9788185952260|page=247}}</ref>

==Contents==
Agyeya belongs to [[Psychoanalytic literary criticism|Psychoanalytic]] school of literary criticism.<ref name="Nagendra1976"/>

Influenced by the theories of [[Sigmund Freud]], [[Alfred Adler]] and [[T. S. Eliot]], the volume has seven essays on theoretical and general subjects: ''Sanskriti aur Paristhiti'', ''Kala Ka Swabhav aur Uddeshya'', ''Rudhi aur Maulikata'' (''Tradition and Originali''), ''Puran aur Sanskriti'', ''Paristhiti aur Sahityakar'', ''Sankrantikal Ki Kuchh Samasyayen'' and ''Chetana Ka Sansar''. The volume has an appendix in six parts, which contains practical criticism of medieval and modern Hindi writings: ''Keshav Ki Kavitai'', ''Char Natak'', ''Ek Bhoomika'', ''Do Phool'', ''Adhunik Kavi Mahadevi Verma'' and ''Vagartha Pratipattaye''.<ref name="Lal1992"/>

Agyeya described ''Rudhi aur Maulikata'' as a free translation of Eliot's ''[[Tradition and the Individual Talent]]''.<ref name="Trivedi1989">{{cite journal|last=Trivedi|first=Harish|title=Eliot in Hindi Modes of Reception|journal=[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]|date=September–October 1989|volume=32|issue=5|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|publication-place=New Delhi|page=149|jstor=23337015}} {{closed access}}</ref>

==Reception==
Due to the Agyeya's treatment of subject and the freshness of his expression, ''Trishanku'' is considered to be a milestone in the development of Hindi critical writings.<ref name="Lal1992"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive|id=in.ernet.dli.2015.263893}}

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