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Preface
A est
esthetics of art and literature is one of the finest contributions
of human culture and with reference to this context of literary
aesthetics classical rhetoric has been accepted as a fascinating sub-
ject of study for the poets, scholars and critics. In this handbook,
the present author has tried to make a critical and comparative
study, in brief, of all the rhetorical figures in Sanskrit as defined,
explained and illustrated by the distinguished rhetors in their trea-
tises written over a period of about two thousand years. For each
figure generally one, but sometimes more than one examples and
their metrical English version have been supplied, and in most of
the cases, the illustrations have been explained for justification.
This study was primarily conducted by the author under the
scheme of Minor Research Project sponsored by the University Grants
Commission and completed with the publication entitled
Alamkārakoşa (An encyclopedia of the Figures of Speech in
Sanskrit) by the Sanskrit Sahitya Prisad, Calcutta in 1992.
Long before the introduction of the present system of educa-
tional curriculum in India in the western method Sanskrit poetics
was an indispensible subject along with philosophy and logic for
the teacher and the taught. It has also been included by all Indian
universities in the graduate and post-graduate level. Therefore
such a book like this was a long desideratum and it is rightly
expected that it will serve as a guide to the students and teachers.
of Sanskrit language and literature.
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A est
esthetics of art and literature is one of the finest contributions
of human culture and with reference to this context of literary
aesthetics classical rhetoric has been accepted as a fascinating sub-
ject of study for the poets, scholars and critics. In this handbook,
the present author has tried to make a critical and comparative
study, in brief, of all the rhetorical figures in Sanskrit as defined,
explained and illustrated by the distinguished rhetors in their trea-
tises written over a period of about two thousand years. For each
figure generally one, but sometimes more than one examples and
their metrical English version have been supplied, and in most of
the cases, the illustrations have been explained for justification.
This study was primarily conducted by the author under the
scheme of Minor Research Project sponsored by the University Grants
Commission and completed with the publication entitled
Alamkārakoşa (An encyclopedia of the Figures of Speech in
Sanskrit) by the Sanskrit Sahitya Prisad, Calcutta in 1992.
Long before the introduction of the present system of educa-
tional curriculum in India in the western method Sanskrit poetics
was an indispensible subject along with philosophy and logic for
the teacher and the taught. It has also been included by all Indian
universities in the graduate and post-graduate level. Therefore
such a book like this was a long desideratum and it is rightly
expected that it will serve as a guide to the students and teachers.
of Sanskrit language and literature.
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