Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)

by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words

This page relates ‘Rajashekhara’s views on Poetic Conventions (Introduction)’ 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 7 - Rājaśekhara’s views on Poetic Conventions (Introduction)

In the XIV, XV and XVI chapters of Rājaśekhara’s Kāvyamīmāṃsā deal with the unique topic of poetic conventions relating to the jāti (genus), dravya (substance) and kriyā (action) and to attribute guṇas and objects in the celestial and nether worlds as on the earth. In any literature of world the poets have often created a world of their own and have set up some common, express ideas handed down through tradition even though they do not strictly conform to the truths found in ordinary creation of Brahmā and science and nature. These are difference between of ‘natural truth’ and ‘poetic truth’ which is technically termed as ‘Kavi-samayas’ or ‘Kavi-saṃketas’ (poeticconvention). This concepts pertaining to the all literature and there a kavi (poet) would use in his composition an idea, absolutely unknown to the world of reality. It may be appeal to another poet, who repeats it. Sanskrit literature is much rich in these types kavi-samayas (poetic conventions).

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