Arthāntaranyāsaḥ uktirarthāntaranyāsasyātsāmānyaviśeṣayoḥ | (C.L. – 119) In Arthāntaranyāsa, a general statement is used to provide a rationale for a specific...
The primary purpose of any work of art is to evoke ‘rasa’, i.e. aesthetic experience in the connoisseur. The experience of rasa is universal and holds true for...
ಉಪಕ್ರಮ ನಮ್ಮ ಪರಂಪರೆಯ ವೇದ-ಪುರಾಣಕಥೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬರುವ ಅನೇಕಪಾತ್ರಗಳನ್ನೂ ಸಂಗತಿಗಳನ್ನೂ ಆಧುನಿಕರು ಬಗೆಬಗೆಯಾಗಿ ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಿಸುವುದುಂಟು. ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡುವಲ್ಲಿ ಅದೆಷ್ಟೋ ಬಾರಿ ಮೂಲದ ತತ್ತ್ವದೃಷ್ಟಿಗೆ ಅ...
The Sanskrit Language Our ancients sculpted a language to give perfect expression to their exuberant emotions. It has a well-developed scheme of letters and a...
Introduction Over the centuries Sanskrit literature has stood witness to a variety of responses from readers across the world. There have been ‘innocent’ reade...
Viśvanātha who wrote Sāhityadarpaṇa starts off by criticizing the attributes of poetry as described by Mammaṭa and others, and ridicules the suggestion that com...
Moving on to one of the greatest masters of all schools of thought and a very creative and gifted genius Abhinavagupta, we see humour sparkling aptly in both hi...
जगत्सन्दर्भसौन्दर्यसंवित्संस्पन्दसाक्षिणम्। प्रणमामि सितस्मेरप्रणवं गणनायकम् ॥ Humour is a divine gift to humans. While experiencing humour is wonderful, analyz...
The epics, Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, largely complement each other in terms of what they offer to connoisseurs. Using the terminology of the rasas (flavours o...
Slaying of the rākṣasa Kabandha is one of the fascinating episodes in Ādikavi Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇam. This oft-quoted episode appears at the end of the Araṇya-kāṇḍ...
ಪ್ರವೇಶಿಕೆ “ಪಾತುಂ ಶ್ರೋತ್ರರಸಾಯನಂ ರಚಯಿತುಂ ವಾಚಃ ಸತಾಂ ಸಮ್ಮತಾ ವ್ಯುತ್ಪತ್ತಿಂ ಪರಮಾಮವಾಪ್ತುಮವಧಿಂ ಲಬ್ಧುಂ ರಸಸ್ರೋತಸಃ | ಭೋಕ್ತುಂ ಸ್ವಾದುಫಲಂ ಚ ಜೀವಿತತರೋರ್ಯದ್ಯಸ್ತಿ ತೇ ಕೌತುಕಂ ತದ್ಭ್ರ...
The events in the Iliad span only a few weeks in the final year of the war and most of them occur outside the city-walls of Troy. In the Odyssey, the events tak...