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Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)

by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words

This page relates ‘Kavyalamkarasarasamgraha of Udbhata� 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 4 - Kāvyālaṃkārasārasaṃgraha of ṭa

[Full title: Pre-dhvani theory of Sanskrit poetics (3): The Kāvyālaṃkārasārasaṃgraha of ṭa (8th century A.D.)]

The 屹ⲹṃkṃg was written by ṭa, is capable to being regarding as the link between the old and the new concepts of ṃk or poetic figure. This work comprised on six vargas (chapters) and seventy-nine . In this work ṭa exercised a profound influence in the Sanskrit Poetics by the defining forty-one ṃk, which are almost enumerated same order to the . In this work he is not discussers the general theory of poetry.

Ѳ峾dzⲹ P. V. Kane realizes that,

‘he is the foremost representative of the ṃk School and his name is associated with several doctrines in the ṃkastra�.[1]

‘In this treatment, ṭa shows an advance on his predecessor and indulges in minute classification of poetic figure like پśǰپ, Anuprāśa, and Ślesa etc[2].

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

Kane, P. V. History of Sanskrit Poetics. MLBD, Delhi, 1971, Pp-135

[2]:

Giri, K. Concept of Poetry: An Indian Approach. Sanskrit Pustak Bhander, Kolkata, 1975, Pp- 24

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