The Kavyollasa of Nilakantha: Texts with Notes and Critical Study by Prof. Dr. C. Sukumaran (in Sanskrit & English)
Kavyollasa of Nilakantha: Texts with notes and critical study by Prof. Dr. C. Sukumaran (in Sanskrit & English)
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Book ID : 25056
ISBN-10 : 81-7081-599-1 / 8170815991
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7081-599-0 / 9788170815990
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : Sanskrit & English
With a foreword by Dr. N.P. Unni; xii, 195p., Bib., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Among the works on literary criticism from Kerala, the Kavyollasa an independent paraphrase of the Kavyaprakasa of Mammata stands foremost. Earlier treatises of Sanskrit rhetoricians were argumentative Nilakantha, the author has attempted to epitomize the principles of poetics in simple verses with suitable illustrations. Though mainly conceived as a redaction of the Kavyaprakasa for the benefit of the youngsters, the author has made it a critical and comparative evaluation of the whole field of poetics. This important work, produced in the first half of the sixteenth century A.D., remains unpublished and almost went out of vogue for the paucity of the manuscripts. The present attempt is to bring a critical edition with a study based on available material.
