Bhashabhushana, Bhāṣābhūṣaṇa, Bhasha-bhushana: 1 definition

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Bhashabhushana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Bhāṣābhūṣaṇa can be transliterated into English as Bhasabhusana or Bhashabhushana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

General definition (in Hinduism)

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

Bhāṣābhūṣaṇa (भाषाभूषण) is the name of a work commented upon by Dalapatirāya and Baṃsīdhara in their Alaṃkāraratnākara (dealing with Poetics and Erotics), which 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. [...]

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