A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.113

v3.c35.s2.113

[Another work of Bhoja on poetics is the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa³. It is a very voluminous work, larger than any work on Sanskrit poetics. It deals with both poetics and dramaturgy, like the Sāhityadarpaṇa. It defines kāvya as *śabdārthau sahitau*: “word and meaning, both, jointly constitute poetry” and propounds that the erotic sentiment (śṛṅgāra) combined with consciousness (abhimāna) and individualization (ahaṁkāra) is the only rasa, properly so called. In this work a new rasa, i.e., vatsala, has been added to the list of nine, and in the opinion of the author vīra, adbhuta, etc., have been so considered just to respect the popular usage (*gatānugatikatvavaśāt*).