Kavyalankara (Kāvyālaṅkāra)

काव्यालङ्कार

The Ornament of Poetry (Bhāmaha)

Bhāmaha's treatise in 6 paricchedas, the oldest extant work of independent poetics.

Language

Sanskrit

Date

600–750 CE

Author

Bhāmaha

Extent

405 passages, 3,472 words

Text

complete digital text

Source

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Contents

• 1 — 59 parts
• 2 dvitīyaḥ paricchedaḥ — 96 parts
• 3 tṛtīyaḥ paricchedaḥ — 58 parts
• 4 caturthaḥ paricchedaḥ — 51 parts
• 5 pañcamaḥ paricchedaḥ — 69 parts
• 6 ṣaṣṭhaḥ paricchedaḥ — 66 parts

Commentaries (11)

• Bhāmahavivaraṇa — Udbhaṭa, Sanskrit
• Commentary of Namisādhu — Namisādhu, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Commentary of Āśādhara — Āśādhara, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Commentary of Vallabhadeva — Vallabhadeva, Sanskrit
• Jayamaṅgalā — Śaṅkarārya, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Kāvyālaṃkāraṭīkā — Nami, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Kāvyālaṅkārasāralaghuvṛtti — Indurāja, Sanskrit
• Kāvyalaṅkāraṭīkā — Ātmārāma, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Kāvyalaṅkāraṭīkā — Jayarāma, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Nayaprakāśa — Varadarāja, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
• Upādhyāyanirapekṣā — Sanskrit, not yet digitised

Translations (2)

• Kāvyālaṅkāra of Bhāmaha (with English translation) — English, not yet digitised
• English (machine translation) — English

See also: more in Early Classical Poetics, Rīti, Vakrokti and Encyclopaedic Tradition

• Kavyadarsha (Kāvyādarśa) — Sanskrit; 700 CE
• Kavyalankarasutra (Kāvyālaṅkārasūtra) — Sanskrit; 796 CE
• Necklace of Sarasvatī (Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa (alaṅkāra)) — Sanskrit; 1033 CE
• Kavyalankara (Kāvyālaṅkāra) — Sanskrit; 838 CE; partly digitised
• Kavyakautuka (Kāvyakautuka) — Sanskrit; 975 CE; partly digitised
• Kavyadarsha (Dandin of Kanci) (Kāvyādarśa (Daṇḍin of Kāñcī)) — Sanskrit; partly digitised

Discussed in 20 studies in Pramāṇa (listed on the page).