Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)
by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words
This page relates ‘Rajashekhara’s Concept and Foundation of Kavi-shiksha’ 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 20 - Rājaśekhara’s Concept and Foundation of Kavi-śikṣā
Rājaśekhara’s magnum-opus Kāvyamīmāṃsā gives him as the position of the propounder and pioneer of the new Kavi-śikṣā School in Sanskrit poetics. In this Kāvyamīmāṃsā is mainly a text applied poetics rather than a work on traditional schools, there the ideas regarding applied poetics are scattered first to last throughout the work.
In this work he has discusses about the equipment of a poet in the creative writings, kāvya-pāka or poetic maturity, pātha-pratiṣṭhā, appropriation of words and meaning, sources of literary themes, routine and duties of a budding poet and descriptions of geographical regions and seasons, which knowledge can be helpful for aspirant poet. Our topic is concentrated about this matter thus it will be discusses elaborately later in analysis and interpretation part.