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Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: Elements of Art and Architecture in the Trtiyakhanda of the Visnudharmottarapurana (kavya)

Alaṃkāramātra (अलंकारमात्र) refers to one of the three divisions of Pratīyamānārtha (“suggestive meaning”), according to the Dhvanyāloka by Ānandavardhana (the founder of Dhvani school of Sanskrit poetics).—The suggestive sense is referred to as dhvani in Sanskrit poetics. Ānandavardhana speaks about two broad divisions of the suggestive meaning—It establishes that the meaning that satisfies the soul of the connoisseur is the soul of poetry and it is divided into two varieties viz., vācyārtha and pratīyamānārtha. Vācyārtha is the primary meaning which is explicit in nature and pratīyamānārtha is the suggestive meaning. The pratīyamānārtha is influenced by the vācyārtha and divided into three sub-varieties [e.g., alaṃkāramātra]. These three varieties of pratīyamānārtha are accepted as the three varieties of Dhvani i.e., suggestive sense.

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

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Partial matches: Alamkara, Matra.

Full-text: Pratiyamanartha.

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