Essay name: Arts in the Puranas (study)
Author:
Meena Devadatta Jeste
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune
This essay studies the Arts in the Puranas by reconstructing the theory of six major fine arts—Music, Dance, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature—from the Major and Minor Puranas. This thesis shows how ancient sages studied these arts within the context of cultural traditions of ancient India.
Chapter 6 - Literature in the Puranas
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- Yathāsamkhya, Visesokti, Virodha, Nindastuti, Nidarsana, Upama, and Ananvaya. Anuprāsa and Yamaka are known as Sabdalaṃkāras. Two varieties of Yamaka are mentioned Samdastaka and Samudga. If Yamaka is maintained all over the Pada, it is called as 'Duskara'. The definitions of many of these alankaras are similar to those of Bhamaha and Dandin. Dr. Priyabala Shah has given the Dandin. corresponding definitions of Bhamaha and Some definitions have the same words. With a survey of all these definitions, she opines that the Vismudharmottara has not directly borrowed the material from Bhamaha and Dandin but it has before it a different tradition, since we find the words 'Puratanai� Sankhyātam' in the definition of Anuprāsa and 'Puratanaih Kathitam' in the definition of 1. 83 Utpreksā. The distinctive feature of the Visnudharmottara is that the Purana has not given importance to the Upamā alaṃkara. It has not even defined Upama. Only the distinction between Upama and Nidarsana is mentioned. The alankara Upanyasa is not found in the Kavyadarsa or the Bhamahalankāra. 84 The Visnudharmottara has not discussed Riti, Guna and
But at the end of the 15th Adhyaya, after giving the
characteristics of the Mahakavya, the Purana mentions some
Dosa.
defects which the poet should avoid in his Kavya.85 The
Visnudharmottara has specifically emphasized the point that
