Alamkaras mentioned by Vamana
by Pratim Bhattacharya | 2016 | 65,462 words
Summary: This essay studies the Alamkaras (‘figure of speech�) mentioned by Vamana in his Kavyalankara-sutra Vritti, a treatise dealing with the elements of Rhetoric and ancient Indian Poetics (also known as “Alankara Shastra�). Vamana, who flourished around 750 A.D., is known as one of the most prominent Rhetoricians in the history of Sanskrit Poetics. He defines the term Alamkara as “Anything which beautifies a Kavya (poetic composition)� and mentions no less than thirty-one varieties in his work.
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