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Introduction
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25-26. Rasagangadhara (or The Master of Aesthetics) : The last of
the best renowned works on Sanskrit poetics is Jagannatha's
Rasagangadhara. The author, a Tailanga brahmin of Andhra family,
was honoured with the title Panditarāja or the best of the pundits by
his patron Saha Jahan, the Mughal emperor. Jagannātha, a prolific
writer, critic, scholar and logician, is the author of the following
works
Rasagangadhara and Citramimamsā-khaṇḍana (on poetics), 5
laharī kāvyas (poems on love and devotion), Asafavilāsa and
Prāṇābharaṇa (biographies of feudatory kings Asaf Khan and
Prāṇanārāyaṇa respectively), Jagadābharaṇa (a poem in praise of
Dara Sikoha, son of Shah Jahan), Bhāmini-vilāsa (in four chapters
poems on different moods and sentiments of human psychol-
ogy) and Prauḍha-manorama-kucha-mardini (a treatise on Sanskrit
grammar).
He is very proud of his own critical apparatus and scholasticism
and also boasts that all the verses given as examples in his treat-
ment on Sanskrit poetics are his own compositions, and not bor-
rowed from others. In his two works on literary criticism, he refers
to the opininions of his predecessors, specially Appayya Dikṣita,
and severly criticises and refutes their views and then establishes
his own. His treatment is very logical and analytical, his diction
pedantic and style elegant. He is never a blind supporter of his
predecessors but submits their views in a very methodical way with
his own analytical approach and afterwards either accepts the
essence of their theories or rejects them bluntly for the establish-
ment of his own novel ideas.
Digitized by
His Citra-mimamsā-khaṇḍana deals with figures of speech, but
abruptly ends and remains incomplete. The title of the work
clearly indicates that it is written with the purpose of refuting the
views of Appayya Dikṣita's work entitled Citra-mimamsā. His
Rasagangādhara, a voluminous work of high merit, gives a critical
and comparative study of the entire field of Sanskrit poetics. Here
70 alamkāras are defined, explained and illustrated. Jagannatha
gives an accurate representation of the views of different schools of
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xxxi
25-26. Rasagangadhara (or The Master of Aesthetics) : The last of
the best renowned works on Sanskrit poetics is Jagannatha's
Rasagangadhara. The author, a Tailanga brahmin of Andhra family,
was honoured with the title Panditarāja or the best of the pundits by
his patron Saha Jahan, the Mughal emperor. Jagannātha, a prolific
writer, critic, scholar and logician, is the author of the following
works
Rasagangadhara and Citramimamsā-khaṇḍana (on poetics), 5
laharī kāvyas (poems on love and devotion), Asafavilāsa and
Prāṇābharaṇa (biographies of feudatory kings Asaf Khan and
Prāṇanārāyaṇa respectively), Jagadābharaṇa (a poem in praise of
Dara Sikoha, son of Shah Jahan), Bhāmini-vilāsa (in four chapters
poems on different moods and sentiments of human psychol-
ogy) and Prauḍha-manorama-kucha-mardini (a treatise on Sanskrit
grammar).
He is very proud of his own critical apparatus and scholasticism
and also boasts that all the verses given as examples in his treat-
ment on Sanskrit poetics are his own compositions, and not bor-
rowed from others. In his two works on literary criticism, he refers
to the opininions of his predecessors, specially Appayya Dikṣita,
and severly criticises and refutes their views and then establishes
his own. His treatment is very logical and analytical, his diction
pedantic and style elegant. He is never a blind supporter of his
predecessors but submits their views in a very methodical way with
his own analytical approach and afterwards either accepts the
essence of their theories or rejects them bluntly for the establish-
ment of his own novel ideas.
Digitized by
His Citra-mimamsā-khaṇḍana deals with figures of speech, but
abruptly ends and remains incomplete. The title of the work
clearly indicates that it is written with the purpose of refuting the
views of Appayya Dikṣita's work entitled Citra-mimamsā. His
Rasagangādhara, a voluminous work of high merit, gives a critical
and comparative study of the entire field of Sanskrit poetics. Here
70 alamkāras are defined, explained and illustrated. Jagannatha
gives an accurate representation of the views of different schools of
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN