वाक्यं रसात्मकं काव्यम् - एकं परिशिलनम् (Vākyaṁ Rasātmakaṁ Kāvyam – An Analysis)

Abstract

Poetry destroys the disease of ignorance existing among people with words of advice containing sweet and graceful words like sugar. What is the characteristic of such a poem? Many rhetoricians have expressed their views on this idea in many ways. There, Jagannatha and others discovered their own view by giving priority to the word itself, “Poetry is a word that expresses a beautiful meaning”. Mammata and others have described the characteristics of poetry by giving priority to both the meanings of the words “that these two meanings are adorned with the virtuous forest again somewhere”. But Viswanath refuted the opinion of Mammata and others in a different way and expressed his own poetic characteristics. In this paper I would like to report how Viswanath defined his own poetic characteristics.

Keywords

• रसः
• दोषः
• गुणः
• अलङ्कारः
• काव्यम्