Shringaraprakasha 10.p1.1

10.p1.1

Table of Contents. In the treatise on poetics entitled Śṛṅgāraprakāśa, composed by the King of kings, the Great King, the illustrious Bhojadeva, the principal subjects to be expounded in the portion ending with the eighth chapter are: Chapters: Chapter 1: The Chapter on Morphological Bases and the Rest; Chapter 2: The Chapter on Nominal Stems and the Rest; Chapter 3: The Chapter on Words Consisting of Morphological Bases and the Rest; Chapter 4: The Chapter on the Tetrad of Meanings Beginning with Action; Chapter 5: The Chapter on the Tetrad of Meanings Beginning with Condition; Chapter 6: The Chapter on the Tetrad of Meanings Beginning with Case-Ending Meanings; Chapter 7: The Chapter on the Relation-Power of Words in Isolation; Chapter 8: The Chapter on the Power of Dependent Words. Topics in the first chapter, the Chapter on Morphological Bases and the Rest: 1–4. The benediction. The establishment of erotic aesthetic experience alone as aesthetic relish, and its intrinsic nature. The formal statement refuting that the heroic, marvelous, and other rasas are rasas. The statement of the reason for composing this work. 5–10. How amorous pleasure and the other emotions corroborate the erotic aesthetic experience. The etymology of the word rasa. The word-meaning of bhāva. Its corroboration of the erotic aesthetic experience. The meaning of the word rasa. The enumeration of the twelvefold varieties of linguistic sound, meaning, and their relation, and the detailed explanation thereof. 11–13. The threefold nature of the morphological base. The sixfold nature of verbal roots. Examples therein of those enumerated in lists, those not enumerated in lists, and those both enumerated and not enumerated. 14–16. Affixal verbal roots, denominative verbs, and affixal denominative verbs. 17. The sixfold division of affixes with examples, according to the distinction of nominal case-endings, verbal endings, and the like. 18–21. The sixfold nature of the nominal stem in the form of noun and so forth. The meaning of the sūtra assigning the technical designation 'nominal stem'. The twofold division of nouns according to the distinction of inherent and non-inherent gender, and the classification of inherent genders with examples. 22–26. The examination of non-inherent gender with examples. The twofold division of indeclinables again according to the distinction of substance and non-substance. The sixfold nature of those possessing substantiality, with examples. 28–30. The sixfold nature of those not possessing substantiality, with examples. The meaning of the word nipāta, and its sixfold division. The explanation of particles conveying an injunction and the like. 31. The explanation of particles conveying commendatory statement, and examples thereof.