Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c55.s7: 19. Keśava Bhaṭṭa
Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c55.s7
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19. Keśava Bhaṭṭa
v1.c55.s7.1
*Rasika-saṃjīvanī* (Aufrecht i 127b, 497b; *Br. Mus.* no. 424, extract).
v1.c55.s7.2
The work, dealing with *rasa*, is in 3 *vilāsas*. The author was the son of Harivaṃśa Bhaṭṭa and a vaiṣṇava disciple of Viṭṭhaleśvara, who is apparently the son of the reformer Vallabhācārya. Hence our author probably belongs to the second half of the 16th century. The first *vilāsa* (11 *śl* only) is mainly introductory; the second deals with *nāyikās*, and the third with *māna*, *praṇaya*, *rāga*, *śṛṅgāra* etc.