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Introduction
viii) different kinds of literary style of diction (ie riti or marga
- mainly two varieties called vaidarbhi and gauḍī along with other
minor ones); styles are chiefly concerned with poetic qualities (ie
gunas distinguished as śleșa, prasāda, samatā, mādhurya, sukumāratā,
arthavyakti, udāratā, ojaḥ, kānti and samadhi),
ix) literary blemishes (kāvyadoṣa) like ambiguity, obscenity, ver-
bosity, lack of lucidity, harshness of sounds, abstruseness etc,
vii
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x) dramaturgy (ie dṛśya-kāvya or rūpaka or nātya) - different
forms and varieties of drama, stage-performance, structure of dra-
matic composition; music, dance and mime related with histrionic
art etc.
Alamkāra (ie the figure of speech) is one of the fundamental
topics of Sanskrit poetics which derives its name as alamkāra-śāstra
(ie art poetica) from the same term that signifies this special disci-
pline as well as denotes more than hundred alamkāras defined,
commented and illustrated by more than thirty rhetoricians in
their respective works. Literature or sahitya plainly means an
appropriate combination of word and meaning which consitute
the body and soul of poetry. A poet creates poetry as an artist cre-
ates a piece of art or a painter draws a picture, and in all such cre-
ations an organic completeness and uniformity has to be achieved
because the beauty of art lies in it. Outward form of poetry is
refinement of expression; but this is not a mechanical or artificial
arrangement of word and meaning or sound and sense, but an
artistic representation along with aesthetic contemplation.
Poetry is not merely a combination of appropriate word with
agreeble meaning; it is, so to say, a revelation from the divine man
(ṛṣi), an expression of the most wise (maniṣi) the poet, the prophet,
the saint.
Digitized by
- -
Figures play a vitally important role on sound-structure, mean-
ing of word, phrase or sentence, form of expression, situations of
context, moods of the speaker and what not. According to the mas-
ters of Sanskrit rhetoric, a poet is an idealist, a philosopher, a
critic, and moreover he is a grammarian, a phonetician, a rhetori-
cian, a word-master and a language-expert. Therefore, a poet
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viii) different kinds of literary style of diction (ie riti or marga
- mainly two varieties called vaidarbhi and gauḍī along with other
minor ones); styles are chiefly concerned with poetic qualities (ie
gunas distinguished as śleșa, prasāda, samatā, mādhurya, sukumāratā,
arthavyakti, udāratā, ojaḥ, kānti and samadhi),
ix) literary blemishes (kāvyadoṣa) like ambiguity, obscenity, ver-
bosity, lack of lucidity, harshness of sounds, abstruseness etc,
vii
-
x) dramaturgy (ie dṛśya-kāvya or rūpaka or nātya) - different
forms and varieties of drama, stage-performance, structure of dra-
matic composition; music, dance and mime related with histrionic
art etc.
Alamkāra (ie the figure of speech) is one of the fundamental
topics of Sanskrit poetics which derives its name as alamkāra-śāstra
(ie art poetica) from the same term that signifies this special disci-
pline as well as denotes more than hundred alamkāras defined,
commented and illustrated by more than thirty rhetoricians in
their respective works. Literature or sahitya plainly means an
appropriate combination of word and meaning which consitute
the body and soul of poetry. A poet creates poetry as an artist cre-
ates a piece of art or a painter draws a picture, and in all such cre-
ations an organic completeness and uniformity has to be achieved
because the beauty of art lies in it. Outward form of poetry is
refinement of expression; but this is not a mechanical or artificial
arrangement of word and meaning or sound and sense, but an
artistic representation along with aesthetic contemplation.
Poetry is not merely a combination of appropriate word with
agreeble meaning; it is, so to say, a revelation from the divine man
(ṛṣi), an expression of the most wise (maniṣi) the poet, the prophet,
the saint.
Digitized by
- -
Figures play a vitally important role on sound-structure, mean-
ing of word, phrase or sentence, form of expression, situations of
context, moods of the speaker and what not. According to the mas-
ters of Sanskrit rhetoric, a poet is an idealist, a philosopher, a
critic, and moreover he is a grammarian, a phonetician, a rhetori-
cian, a word-master and a language-expert. Therefore, a poet
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN