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Introduction
prosody, literary qualities, riddles and especially grammar through
illustrative verses. The complete book is divided into 4 sections -
prakīrṇa, adhikāra, prasanna and timanta. The 3rd section is entirely
devoted to poetics and here we get 75 verses as illustrations of 38
figures in the 10th canto, 87 verses as examples of bhāvika in the
12th canto and 50 verses as examples of the figure bhāṣa-sama in
the 13th canto. In his treatment of the figures of speech, Bhaṭṭi fol-
lows the same tradition accepted by Daṇḍin and Bhāmaha. Bhaṭṭi
is roughly placed on the latter half of the 6th century AD.
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4. Kävyädarśa or Mirror of Poetry : The Kāvyādarśa is the magnum
opus of Dandin (650-700 AD) who is also the author of the
Dasakumāra-carita, a prose romance and the Avantisundari-kathā
(also a prose romance which is unfortunately lost barring a few
pages at the beginning).
The Kavyadarsa, divided into 3 chapters, is an authentic work
dealing with almost all the topics of Sanskrit poetics. Daṇḍin is the
founder of the Riti school and accepts two principal styles of poetic
diction (ie vaidarbhi and gauḍī) and recognises the former as the
finest of literary styles, which is characterised by the ten guṇas (lit-
erary attributes). But he also gives equal importance to alamkāras
and uses the term alamkāra in a very wide sense. Figures, according
to him, are the elements of beautification of poetry. In the II chap-
ter of his book 35 alamkāras have been defined, explained and
illustrated and the varieties of Upamā as given by him appears very
much interesting. Among the early rhetoricians Dandin holds a
very high position as a rhetor and critic of literature.
Digitized by
5. Kāvyālamkāra or Embellishment of Poetry: The Kävyālamkāra of
Bhāmaha (700-750 AD), divided into 6 chapters containing about
400 verses along with an index of topics at the end, discusses the
common topics of poetics. Like Dandin he also expresses his
indebtedness to his predecessors and refers to Medhävirudra by
name. Commentaries of the Kavyadarśa also refer to Käsyapa,
Brahmadatta, Vararuci and Nandisvāmin as his predecessors; but
unfortunately no treatise of these scholars has been available so
far. Bhāmaha is considered as the oldest exponent of alamkāra
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prosody, literary qualities, riddles and especially grammar through
illustrative verses. The complete book is divided into 4 sections -
prakīrṇa, adhikāra, prasanna and timanta. The 3rd section is entirely
devoted to poetics and here we get 75 verses as illustrations of 38
figures in the 10th canto, 87 verses as examples of bhāvika in the
12th canto and 50 verses as examples of the figure bhāṣa-sama in
the 13th canto. In his treatment of the figures of speech, Bhaṭṭi fol-
lows the same tradition accepted by Daṇḍin and Bhāmaha. Bhaṭṭi
is roughly placed on the latter half of the 6th century AD.
xxiii
4. Kävyädarśa or Mirror of Poetry : The Kāvyādarśa is the magnum
opus of Dandin (650-700 AD) who is also the author of the
Dasakumāra-carita, a prose romance and the Avantisundari-kathā
(also a prose romance which is unfortunately lost barring a few
pages at the beginning).
The Kavyadarsa, divided into 3 chapters, is an authentic work
dealing with almost all the topics of Sanskrit poetics. Daṇḍin is the
founder of the Riti school and accepts two principal styles of poetic
diction (ie vaidarbhi and gauḍī) and recognises the former as the
finest of literary styles, which is characterised by the ten guṇas (lit-
erary attributes). But he also gives equal importance to alamkāras
and uses the term alamkāra in a very wide sense. Figures, according
to him, are the elements of beautification of poetry. In the II chap-
ter of his book 35 alamkāras have been defined, explained and
illustrated and the varieties of Upamā as given by him appears very
much interesting. Among the early rhetoricians Dandin holds a
very high position as a rhetor and critic of literature.
Digitized by
5. Kāvyālamkāra or Embellishment of Poetry: The Kävyālamkāra of
Bhāmaha (700-750 AD), divided into 6 chapters containing about
400 verses along with an index of topics at the end, discusses the
common topics of poetics. Like Dandin he also expresses his
indebtedness to his predecessors and refers to Medhävirudra by
name. Commentaries of the Kavyadarśa also refer to Käsyapa,
Brahmadatta, Vararuci and Nandisvāmin as his predecessors; but
unfortunately no treatise of these scholars has been available so
far. Bhāmaha is considered as the oldest exponent of alamkāra
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