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General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I (hinduism)

Alaṃkāraratnākara (अलंकाररत्नाकर) is the name of a work by Dalapatirāya and Baṃsīdhara (dealing with Poetics and Erotics). The Alaṃkāraratnākara is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Alaṃkāraratnākara illustrates the later phase of the Rīti school, is a collaborative work on poetics by two inhabitants of Ahmedabad, Vaṃsīdhara and Dalapatirāya, who introduce themselves as such at the beginning. [...] It is a kind of large scale commentary on the Bhāṣābhūṣaṇa, which is recognized as authoritative on the figures of speech and on rasa. It was a widely used manual and has given birth to several commentaries. The Alaṃkāraratnākara by Vaṃsīdhara and Dalapatirāya is extensive. As stated by them, it is in the tradition of the Sanskrit kuvalayānanda. It is made of definitions (lacchana, Skt. lakṣaṇa) and examples.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Alaṃkāraratnākara (अलंकाररत्नाकर) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—alaṃk. Burnell. 54^a.
—by Śobhākaramitra. Report. Xv. H. 170. Peters. 1, 12.
—[commentary] Alaṃkāraratnākarodāharaṇa by the same. Report. Xvi. Alaṃkāraratnākarodāharaṇasaṃnibaddha-Devistotra by Yaśaskara. L. 1822. Report. Ix. Peters. 1, 116.

2) Alaṃkāraratnākara (अलंकाररत्नाकर):—by Śobhākaramitra. Stein 58.
—[commentary] Alaṃkāraratnodāharaṇa by the same. Stein 58. Alaṃkārodāharaṇasaṃnibaddha-Devīstotra by Yaśaskara. Stein 58.
—[commentary] on this by Ratnakaṇṭha. Stein 58.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Alaṃkāraratnākara (अलंकाररत्नाकर):—[=alaṃ-kāra-ratnākara] [from alaṃ-kāra > alaṃ > alam] m. Name of [work]

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Alamkara, Ratnakara.

Full-text: Shobhakaramitra, Lakshana, Lacchana, Bhashabhushana, Vamshidhara, Dalapatiraya, Ratnakara, Devistotra.

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