Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Ancestry of Rajashekhara’ of the 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 3 - Ancestry of Rājaśekhara
About the matter of Rājaśekhara’s ancestry, he also gave some of the details in his works. In the introductory verse of Bālarāmāyaṇa he says: he was the great grandson of ‘Mahārāṣṭracūrāmaṇi’ Akāljalada[1] and his parents name was Durduka or Duhika and Śīlāvatī[2]. Durduka or Duhika was a high minister, Mahāmantrin.
By the stanza of Bālarāmāyaṇa we see that the poetical skill appears to have in their family:
“sa mūrto yatrāsīd guṇagaṇa ivākālajaladaḥ surānandaḥ so'pi śravaṇapuṭapeyena vacasā |
na cānye ganyante taralakavirājaprṛbhatayo mahābhāgastasminnayamajani yāyāvaraku le || ”
- Bālarāmāyaṇa of Rājaśekhara: I/ 13
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Bālarāmāyaṇa - 1.13
[2]:
Bālarāmāyaṇa - 1.7 and Bālabhārata- 1.8