Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara: Original text in Sanskrit and translation with explanatory notes

Recommended By: Shailendra Raj Mehta
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CONTENTS
Preface v
The Sastra Group ix
Transliteration Chart xvii
Introduction 1
Map of India during Rajasekhara's Time
Map depicting Linguistic Analysis during the Time of Rajasekhara
Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara Original Text in Sanskrit and Translation
1. Sastrasamgrahah (The Discipline of Poetics) 17
2. Sastranirdesah (Nature and Division of Poetics) 20
3. Kavyapurusotapattih (Origin of Kavya) 30
4. Pada-Vakya-Vivekah (Language, Word and Sentence) 41
5. Vyutpatti and Kavya-Paka (Vyutpatti and Maturity in Poetic-Expression) 53
6. Pada-Vakya-Vivekah (Definition and Kinds of Sentences) 68
7. Vakya-Bhedah (Modes of Sentences andIntonation) 88
8. Kavyarthyonyah (Sources of Meaning in Poetry) 106
9. Arthavyaptih (Description of Sources of Meaning) 126
10. Kavicarya and Rajacarya (Daily Routine and Duties of a Poet and a King 146
11. Sabdaharanam (Appropriation of Words) 164
12. Arthaharanam (Appropriation of Meanings) 180
13. Arthaharanesvalekhyaprakhyadibhedah (Different Kinds of Appropriation) 197
14. Kavi-Samaya (Conventions of a Poet) 222
15. Guna-Samaya-Sthapana (Poetic-Conventions) 235
16. Svargya-Pataliya-Kavi-Rahasya-Sthapana (Poetic Conventions Relating to Celestial and Nether Worlds) 244
17. Desa-Vibhagah (Geographical Regions and its Divisions) 253
18. Kala-Vibhagah 275
Appendix I 307
List of Names which occur in Kavyamimamsa
Appendix II 313
Names of Geographical regions which occur in the Kavyamimamsa
Bibliography 327