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Kāvyaprakāśa

The Kāvyaprakāśa is an alaṃkāraśāstra work discussing theories of poetry. It is one of the most important works in the alaṃkāraśāstra. Its author is Mammaṭa.

Approximate Date of Creation

1100 A.D.

Location

Kashmir

Author

Mammaṭa

Text Type

Text Passages

KP 8, fllg. v.187

From the text: Kāvyaprakāśa

References

Karmarkar, Raghunath Damodar (ed.) (1933), Kāvyaprakāśa. With the Sanskrit commentary Bālabodhinī. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.

Linguistic Notions

Relative clauses

1. Introduction Research on relative clauses in modern Western linguistics includes both more descriptive/typological angles such as distinguishing the different semantic and syntactic...

Authors

Mammaṭa was from Kashmir.

Linguistic Traditions

Alaṃkāraśāstra

The Alaṃkāraśāstra is the native tradition of Sanskrit poetics, rhetoric, and literary theory. It functions as a kind of grammar to the language of the kāvya literature (Bronne...