Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates 鈥楻ajashekhara鈥檚 Province and Religion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 5 - 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补鈥檚 Province and Religion
There like another poets of Sanskrit literature 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 doesn鈥檛 given any information about his place where he born and lived in. But it is certain that he was the 鲍辫腻诲丑腻测补 of 惭补丑别苍诲谤补辫腻濒补 and his son and successor 惭补丑颈辫腻濒补 of Kannauj (碍腻苍测补办耻产箩补). He also spends some time at the 罢谤颈辫耻谤墨 (Jabalpur) in the 碍补濒腻肠耻谤墨 country.
A. B. Keith[1], Sten Konow[2], Narayana Diksita[3] and Shayam Varma[4] refer him as the 惭补丑腻谤腻峁ａ弓谤颈测补. But in other side, P. V. Kane[5] and A. M. Sastri[6], thinks that his ancestors also lived in the 惭补丑腻谤补峁ａ弓谤补. Therefore V. S. Apte[7], posits 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 as the south-western part of country. In this way, there are so many controversies about the 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 place where he is born or lived in.
Indeed, 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补鈥檚 ancestor lived in the 惭补丑腻谤补峁ａ弓谤补 and he was 惭补诲丑测补诲别艣补[8]. There is no confusion that 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 lived in 惭补诲丑测补诲别艣补, because in the tenth chapter of K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 says that the poets of 惭补诲丑测补诲别艣补 are 鈥�蝉补谤惫补产丑腻峁Ｄ乶颈峁ａ箛腻迟补鈥� C.f .
鈥�膩vant膩岣� p膩riy膩tr膩岣� saha da艣apurajairbh奴tabh膩峁Ｄ佱箖 bhajante
yo madhyemadhyede艣a峁� nivasanti sa kavi岣� sarvabh膩峁Ｄ乶i峁ａ箛a岣� || 鈥�- K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补, Ch-X, Pp-51
In the fifth chapter of K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩 discusses about the matter of 碍补惫颈谤腻箩补[9] and call him as a 办补惫颈谤腻箩补[10]. Thus, it can be seem that he was lived in the 惭补诲丑测补诲别艣补.
Therefore in the 础耻肠颈迟测补惫颈肠腻谤补肠补谤肠腻, 碍峁尘别苍诲谤补 says that:
鈥�kar峁嚹佱弓墨da艣an膩峁卥ita岣� 艣itamah膩r膩峁ａ弓r墨ka峁乲峁Ｄ乭ata岣�
prau岣峢膩ndhr墨stanap墨岣峣ta岣� pra峁嘺yin墨bhr奴bha峁単avitr膩sita岣� |
l膩峁玝膩huvive峁ａ弓ita艣ca malayastr墨tarjan墨tarjita岣�
soya峁� samprati r膩ja艣ekharakavi岣� v膩r膩峁嘺s墨峁� v膩cchati || 鈥�- 础耻肠颈迟测补惫颈肠腻谤补肠补谤肠腻 of 碍峁尘别苍诲谤补 - 27
搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 born in the 惭补丑腻谤腻峁ａ弓谤补, in the younger time he lived in the court of 惭补丑别苍诲谤补辫腻濒补 and 惭补丑墨辫腻濒补 and in the end if life he lived in 叠别苍腻谤补蝉补. 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 also have been seems to 艢补颈惫补 sects. Because among the four Plays, the introductory verse of the two dramas are praise of Lord 艢颈惫补 and 笔腻谤惫补迟墨[11] .
Footnotes and references:
[2]:
Introduction of 碍补谤辫奴谤补尘补帽箩补谤墨, Harvard University Press, 1901, Pp-180
[3]:
Introduction of 痴颈诲诲丑补艣腻濒补产丑补帽箩颈办腻.
[5]:
Kane, P. V. History of Sanskrit Poetics. MLBD, Delhi, 1971, Pp-214
[7]:
Introduction of 碍补谤辫奴谤尘补帽箩补谤墨, Delhi, 1901, Pp-181
[8]:
B膩lar膩m膩ya峁嘺 of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤: I/ 13
[9]:
鈥�yastu tatra tatra bh膩峁Ｄ乿i艣e峁 te峁 te峁 prabandhe峁 tasmi峁僺tasmi艣ca rase 蝉惫补迟补苍迟谤补岣� sa 办补惫颈谤腻箩补岣� | K膩vyam墨m膩峁僺膩: Ch-5, Pp- 19
[10]:
鈥�b膩laka墨 kair膩o 峁噄bbhaar膩assa taha abajjh膩o |
itti assa para峁� parae app膩 m膩hattam膩r奴岣峢o |鈥� 鈥� 碍补谤辫奴谤补尘补帽箩补谤墨: I/ 9.
[11]:
痴颈诲诲丑补艣腻濒补产丑补帽箩颈办腻: I/3 and 叠腻濒补产丑腻谤补迟补: I/ 2