Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates 鈥極riginality in Alamkaras (poetic figures)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).
Part 4 - Originality in 础濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 (poetic figures)
膧肠腻谤测补 Bharatamuni in his 狈腻峁瓂补艣腻蝉迟谤补, defines 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 (poetic figure) as a accompanying way in the chapter six, seven and sixteen. However, he does not define there any definition of 础濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 but his ascertainment about the matter of four 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 i.e. 鲍辫补尘腻, 搁奴辫补办补, 顿墨辫补办补 and Yamaka. Then 叠丑补谤补迟补尘耻苍颈鈥檚 following rhetoricians Bhamaha, V膩ma峁嘺, Dandin, Rudrata was accepted the 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 as the beautifying elements of poetry. He is also elaborately defining the position and importance of 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉鈥� in Sanskrit poetics. But 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补, the author of 碍腻惫测补m墨m膩峁僺膩 is the one and only 膧濒补峁僰腻谤颈办补 in the history of Sanskrit poetics who first time introduces 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 with their demonstrations names.
搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 also posits the 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 are the important elements in the 碍腻惫测补 (poetry) and which presence 碍腻惫测补 (poetry) is more beautifying, it is very essential for charming poetry (补濒补峁僰峁泃颈).
搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 defines 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 in the 碍腻惫测补 as:
鈥�gu峁嘺vadala峁卥峁泃a帽ca v膩kyameva k膩vyam 触鈥�
-碍腻惫测补m墨m膩峁僺膩 of 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补: Ch-VI, Pp- 24
Means:
鈥�碍腻惫测补 (poetry) is declared to be a sentence endowed with 驳耻峁嘺蝉 and 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 (蹿颈驳耻谤别蝉).鈥�
In this definition he gives importance of 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 in the 碍腻惫测补 (poetry). There sometimes 搁腻箩补艣别办丑补谤补 uses 补濒补峁僰腻谤补蝉 for expressing the matter of 驳耻峁嘺蝉 and action with ignite of the emotions.