Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Kavyanushasana of Hemachandra’ 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 13 - Kāvyānuśāsana of Hemachandra
[Post-Dhvani Theory of Sanskrit Poetics (6): The Kāvyānuśāsana of Hemachandra (11th century A.D.)]
Ācārya Hemacandra [Hemachandra] whole of eight chapters in his Kāvyānuśāsana (of Hemacandra) discusses about the general aspects of poetics with applied poetics. In the first chapter devotes for applied poetics, which he has extensively quoted from Rājaśekhara’s Kāvyamīmāṃsā in second chapter elaborately discusses about rasa following to the Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra.
The third chapter described the different poetic blemishes i.e.
- Kāvya-doṣa,
- rasa-doṣa,
- pada-doṣa,
- vākyārtha-doṣa,
- padavākya-doṣa and
- artha-doṣa etc.
Then the fourth chapter connected with poetic excellences and fifth and sixth chapter deals about the figures of speech of śabda and artha. The seventh chapter is the enumeration of the characteristics of heroes and heroines. Then in the eighth chapter of Kāvyānuśāsana (of Hemacandra) laying down the various divisions of poetic composition.