Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Introduction (the Rasa and Dhvani school)’ 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 1 - Introduction (the Rasa and Dhvani school)
In the history of Sanskrit Poetics the term ‘Alaṃkāra Śāstra’ basically uses to literary criticism. There are six different major schools of critical thought but among them the most important exponents of two theories are Rasa School and Dhvani School. However, the principle held of those theory formulated individual to each other but both they are came to values assigned to them in their relation. It also be seems that almost every subject matter of Sanskrit Poetics is stand of those two theories. There almost every successor of Dhvani theorist Ānandavardhana blindly follows the viewpoints of him. Because this great thinker Ānandavardhana exercises very tremendous influence in the field of Sanskrit Poetics and takes as the turning points in the history of Sanskrit Poetics. Who are distinguished the Sanskrit poetical theories into the Pre-Dhvani period and Post-Dhvani period.