Kavyalankara-sara-sangraha of Udbhata
by Narayana Daso Banhatti | 1925
This is the Sanskrit edition Kavyalankara Sara Sangraha, including the Laghuvritti commentary of Induraja, an English introduction, notes and appendices. The 鈥淜avyalamkara Sara Samgraha鈥� by Udbhata is a significant work in the field of Sanskrit poetics, primarily focusing on poetic figures and rhetoric (alamkara). It dates back to the late 8th cent...
The Laghuvritti commentary (Introduction)
The Laghuvritti of Induraja is a very valuable and learned commentary. Its special elegances are:
(i) The peculiar and charming method of explaining the Karikas. style. (ii) The flowing, argumentative and terse yet lucid Induraja's way of explaining Karikas is his speciality. He first takes one of the epithets in the Karika as the primary definition and begins to shew how all other epithets are necessary to have a complete definition of the alankara in question. For example, see the vrtti on the definitions of Slishta, Utpreksha, Sandeha, and Sankara. Induraja's style is terse yet it is not at all difficult to an accustomed reader of Sanskrit commentaries. It is not elliptic as that of Mammata. Udbhata's Kavyalankarasarasangraha with the commentary of Induraja is a very valuable work. The accurate yet easy definitions of Udbhata, the learned disquisitions of Induarja upon them and the beautiful examples exactly fitting in with the bearing of the Karikas, forms a combination at once very useful and engaging. The alankaras treated are few and prominent and there are no elaborate and minute divisions made of them as is the tendency of works on Alankara later than Mammata. The work would therefore be a very handy and useful manual to a modern student of Alankara who would perhaps equally dislike the cumbrous and unwieldy dissertations of modern writers on the one hand, and the loose and primary treatment of very old authors on the other.