Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Lost Works (2): The Bhuvanakosha’ 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 18 - Lost Works (2): The Bhūvanakośa
[Full title: Lost Works of Rājaśekhara: (ii) The Bhūvanakośa]
In the seventeenth chapter of Kāvyamīmāṃsā, Rājaśekhara recommends for the readers it is only an outline of divisions of regions.
Who are interested more about this he should study the Bhūvanakośa. C.f.
“itthaṃ deśavibhāgo mudrāmātreṇa sūcitaḥ sudhiyām |
yastu jigīṣatyadhikaṃ paśyatu madbhavanakośamasau || ”- Kāvyamīmāṃsā of Rājaśekhara: Ch-XVII, Pp-98
Therefore, a number of Muktakas and laudatory verse also ascribed to Rājaśekhara are seen in the Subhāsīitāvalī, Sangadharpaddhati, Saduktikarnāmṛta, Kavindravacanasamucchya and Subhasītāratnakoṣa etc.