Rasagangadhara (Text with English Translation and Critical Study)
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAI027 |
| Author: | Dhananjaya Bhanja |
| Publisher: | Bharatiya Kala Prakashan |
| Language: | Sanskrit Text with English Translation |
| Edition: | 2004 |
| ISBN: | 8186090055 |
| Pages: | 422 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 9 inch X 6 inch |
| Weight | 660 gm |
Book Description
This book is in two volumes. The first one is theories and second one is only Alamkar. I have choosen only first part of Rasagangadhara, where, rasa, guna, dosa, Kavyabheda, Kavyaprayojana, etc. are discussed.
Eng. Translation in this form is made for first time so that the student coming from western countries shall be able to understand its importance. The translation is the result of long felt demand of students in various universities.
A Poet from Telengana (Andhra Pradesh) in 16th C.A.D. composed many books including this masterpiece for lovers of Sanskrit Poetics. His other works are also highly recognized by modern scribers. Panditaraja Jagannath enjoyed the privilege of recording, reviewing, refuting and re-appraising the various theories on Poetics in RG. (Rasagangadhara). He had adopted the technique of neo-logic in whole concepts.
| Purovak | (vii) | |
| Acknowledgements | (xi) | |
| Transliteration Format | (xiii) | |
| PART I | ||
| Text With English Translation of Rasagangadhara of Panditaraja Jagannatha and Notes | 1-242 | |
| PART II | ||
| Rasagangadhara : A Critical Stydy | ||
| CHAPTER I | Introduction | 245-262 |
| 1 | General Backgrond | 247 |
| 1.1 | Date, Life and Works of PR | 256 |
| 1.2 | Researches already done | |
| CHAPTER II | Contents of RG | 263-301 |
| 2.1 | The definition of Poetry | 263 |
| 2.2 | The cause of Poetry | 271 |
| 2.3 | The division of Poetry | 277 |
| 2.4 | The concepts of rasa | 282 |
| 2.5 | The concepts of guna and dosa | 288 |
| 2.6 | The concepts of moods | 293 |
| 2.7 | The concepts of dhvani | 300 |
| CHAPTER III | 302-333 | |
| 3.1 | Predecessors criticised by PR | 302 |
| 3.2 | PR criticised by his Successors | 320 |
| CHAPTER IV | 334-363 | |
| 4.1 | Some Textual Problems in RG | 334 |
| 4.2 | Influence of Neo-logic in PR | 340 |
| 4.3 | Influence of Predecessors on PR | 347 |
| 4.4 | Importance of RG in Sanskrit Poetics | 355 |
| 4.5 | Observation and Conclusion | 361 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 364-371 | |
| (a) | Primary Sources | 364 |
| (b) | Secondary Sources | 367 |
| INDICES | 372-390 | |
| (a) | To Technical Terms | 372 |
| (b) | To Works | 377 |
| (c) | To Authors | 378 |
| (d) | To Definitions | 379 |
| (e) | Citations in RG from other works in Prose | 389 |
| TABLES AND DIAGRAMS | 391-403 |
