Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates 鈥楶ersonalities 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 7 - Personalities of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补
搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 born in a learned and cultured family and receive good education, where he received different branches of contemporary Hindu learning. His poetical work K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 display about this great versatility. His enumeration about the equipment of a poet and various arts and sciences provided us an idea to the liberal education of his time. 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 calls himself not a 惭补丑腻办补惫颈 but a 碍补惫颈谤腻箩补[1], which assume that he he himself came up to the standard and set up for the poets鈥� acquaintance with different branches of knowledge beside literature, which he also masters.
Now time is coming to identify that in the History of Sanskrit poetics in which place 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 is places. However he also famous for a poet and a dramatist, but what is the position to him in the Sanskrit 腻濒补峁僰腻谤颈办补蝉. According to P. V. Kane[2], 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 gives some striking historical and literary information in numerous matters. Now we can see the some important feature of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 among the other rhetoricians:
In the first chapter of K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 he says that this voluminous work was composed into eighteen 础诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺蝉. Which all are dealing with the topic of 础濒补峁僰腻谤补艣腻蝉迟谤补.
But now we can found only first 补诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺, if all the composed work can found thus Sanskrit poetics will be more prosperous.
This part of K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 was very much influenced on the later rhetoricians and they also cited more time in this work i.e. K峁endra, Bhoja, Hemacandra and Bh膩gbha峁弓a etc.
In the eleventh 尘补谤颈肠墨 of 础濒补峁僰腻谤补艣别办丑补谤补 cited a verse from the K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 viz.
鈥�ala峁卥膩ra艣iroratna峁� sarvasva峁� k膩vyasampad膩m |
upam膩 kaviva峁兣沘sya bh膩taiveti matirmama || 鈥�
- 础濒补峁僰腻谤补艣别办丑补谤补, 11 m膩richi
It is not found in present 补诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺s. Thus we can also seems that he was also well known about 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补鈥檚 another 补诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺s. Therefore, Hemachandra in his K膩vy膩nu艣膩sana (of Hemacandra) copied whole of the chapter of VIII, IX and XIII-XVIII of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补鈥檚 K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 Thus it is another important aspect of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补.
The concepts of 碍腻惫测补辫耻谤耻峁岣� described in the third chapter which is based on the Veda-辫耻谤耻峁岣�, aspects citation of various ancient 腻肠腻谤测补蝉 in the whole of K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩, description of custom and language of various parts of country is give the 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 paramount position in the history of Sanskrit Poetics.