Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates 鈥榁iddhashalabhanjika of Rajashekhara鈥� of the English 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 12 - The Viddha艣膩labha帽jik膩 of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补
[Full title: The Dramas of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补: (ii) The Viddha艣膩labha帽jik膩]
It is a 狈腻峁璱办腻 . 痴颈艣惫补苍腻迟丑补 in his 厂腻丑颈迟测补诲补谤辫补峁嘺 says about 狈腻峁璱办腻 as:
鈥�n膩峁璱k膩 kl峁沺tav峁泃t膩 sy膩t str墨pr膩y膩 catura峁卥ik膩 |
prakhy膩to dh墨ralalitastastatra sy膩nn膩yako n峁沺a岣� 触触鈥�- 厂腻丑颈迟测补诲补谤辫补峁嘺 of 痴颈艣惫补苍腻迟丑补: VI/ 269
And in the 狈腻峁瓂补艣腻蝉迟谤补 says:
鈥�p奴rvasthito vipadyate n膩yako yatra c膩parasti峁ａ弓het |
tamapoha narmagarbha vidv膩n n膩峁� yaprayoge峁 触触鈥�- 狈腻峁瓂补艣腻蝉迟谤补 of Bharata: XX/ 62
It composes into four acts by 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补. There the heroine 惭峁沢腻峁卥腻惫补迟墨 is sent by her father disguised as a boy to king 痴颈诲测腻诲丑补谤补尘补濒濒补. The king also had already a dream of her. The queen has found a bride, 碍耻惫补濒补测补尘腻濒腻 for the boy. But the bride is found as a slave; the king and the jester find 惭峁沢腻峁卥腻惫补迟墨 reading a loveletter in the garden. The minister 叠丑腻驳耻谤腻测补峁嘺 also had employed a magical device to manufacture the kings dream, because a prophesy of her husband attaining preeminence.
Further the king and 痴颈诲奴峁办补 meet with the heroine. The queen persuades the king to marry the boy鈥檚 sister, intending to mortify the king with a male bride. After the marriage take place a messenger from the disguised girl鈥檚 father comes and say a son is born to him and his daughter may now give up the disguise. The queen also realized that she has been tricked thus she preserve her dignity and gives 惭峁沢腻峁卥腻惫补迟墨 and 碍耻惫补濒补测补尘腻濒腻 to the king in marriage. In this way with the marriage of 痴颈诲测腻诲丑补谤补尘补濒濒补 with 惭峁沢腻峁卥腻惫补迟墨 and 碍耻惫补濒补测补尘腻濒腻 the 狈腻峁璱办腻 is end.
There the rasa is 艢峁涐箙驳腻谤补 and the descriptions of the twilight, spring and moon-light etc. are very nice and attractive. In this 狈腻峁璱办腻, 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 seems too influenced by 贬补谤峁鈥檚 搁补迟苍腻惫补濒墨. About this play, I. Sekhar feel that, 鈥淎ll his works are influenced by 碍腻濒颈诲腻蝉补, 贬补谤峁, 叠丑补惫补产丑奴迟颈 and perhaps even by 惭耻谤腻谤墨, but he fails to improve his style and diction because he considered himself more competent than his predecessors[1].