Description
The present book AbhirÄjayaÅ›obhūṣaṇam of Abhiraja Rajendra Mishra deals with the new approaches towards definition of poetry (kÄvyasvarÅ«pa), equipment of poet (kÄvyahetu), purpose of poetry (kÄvyaprayojana), classifications of poetry (kÄvyaÅ›ÄkhÄ), divisions of dṛśyakÄvya, divisions of Å›ravyakÄvya, contemporary literary forms galajjalikÄ and chandomuktakÄvya. An attempt has been made in this book to exhibit the transformation of the Sanskrit literary forms from ancient to modern period in terms of canons, themes, styles etc. in consideration to explore new sorts of Sanskrit poetry and to find out the level of acceptability of these literary forms and poetics with the contemporary world, this book has been composed.