Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Kavyalamkarasarasamgraha of Udbhata’ of the English 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 4 - Kāvyālaṃkārasārasaṃgraha of Udbhaṭa
[Full title: Pre-dhvani theory of Sanskrit poetics (3): The Kāvyālaṃkārasārasaṃgraha of Udbhaṭa (8th century A.D.)]
The Kāvyalaṃkārasārasaṃgraha was written by Udbhaṭa, is capable to being regarding as the link between the old and the new concepts of Alaṃkāras or poetic figure. This work comprised on six vargas (chapters) and seventy-nine kārikās. In this work Udbhaṭa exercised a profound influence in the Sanskrit Poetics by the defining forty-one Alaṃkāras, which are almost enumerated same order to the Bhāmaha. In this work he is not discussers the general theory of poetry.
Mahāmomapādhāya P. V. Kane realizes that,
‘he is the foremost representative of the Alaṃkāra School and his name is associated with several doctrines in the Alaṃkārasastra’.[1]
‘In this treatment, Udbhaṭa shows an advance on his predecessor and indulges in minute classification of poetic figure like Atiśayokti, Anuprāśa, Upamā and Ślesa etc’[2].