Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates 鈥楢ncestry of Rajashekhara鈥� of the study on the Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara: a poetical encyclopedia from the 9th century dealing with the ancient Indian science of poetics and rhetoric (also know as alankara-shastra). The Kavya-mimamsa is written in eighteen chapters representing an educational framework for the poet (kavi) and instructs him in the science of applied poetics for the sake of making literature and poetry (kavya).
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Part 3 - Ancestry of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补
About the matter of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补鈥檚 ancestry, he also gave some of the details in his works. In the introductory verse of 叠腻濒补谤腻尘腻测补峁嘺 he says: he was the great grandson of 鈥�Mah膩r膩峁ａ弓rac奴r膩ma峁噄鈥� Ak膩ljalada[1] and his parents name was Durduka or Duhika and 艢墨濒腻惫补迟墨[2]. Durduka or Duhika was a high minister, 惭补丑腻尘补苍迟谤颈苍.
By the stanza of 叠腻濒补谤腻尘腻测补峁嘺 we see that the poetical skill appears to have in their family:
鈥�sa m奴rto yatr膩s墨d gu峁嘺ga峁嘺 iv膩k膩lajalada岣� sur膩nanda岣� so'pi 艣rava峁嘺pu峁璦peyena vacas膩 |
na c膩nye ganyante taralakavir膩japr峁沚hatayo mah膩bh膩gastasminnayamajani y膩y膩varaku le || 鈥�
- 叠腻濒补谤腻尘腻测补峁嘺 of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补: I/ 13
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
叠腻濒补谤腻尘腻测补峁嘺 - 1.13
[2]:
叠腻濒补谤腻尘腻测补峁嘺 - 1.7 and B膩labh膩rata- 1.8