Indian Poetics

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                                                 Today, I have the most interesting and wonderful subject to discuss in this blog and I must express my faithful gratitude to two stalwarts for making ‘Indian Poetics’ a highly interesting subject and for providing the best opportunity to learn the rich and varied subjects from an excellency. I ardently acknowledge the efforts of Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir, Dean of Arts Faculty and Head of the English Department, M. K. Bhavnagar University, for carrying out technology and implementing Digitality for the student majoring in English Literature at Department as well as his endeavor for providing us the knowledge from ‘the best of brains’ by arranging ‘Expert Lectures’. Secondly, I am thankful to Prof. Vinod Joshi Sir for introducing ‘Indian Poetics’ in the syllabus of Literary Criticism and Theory and it was a great honor to attend Sir’s six fruitful and exceptionally productive expert lectures.

(Click here to know more about Vinod Joshi Sir -a versatile Gujarati poet of the postmodern era and a popular critic.)

Here is my blog on the summary of these Expert Lectures. (Click to view)

INDIAN POETICS

                            Indian Poetic theory is very old and the most interesting literary as well as philosophical and cultural discussion of Indian or better to say Sanskrit Literature. Sanskrit is regarded as ‘Dev-Vani’ (the language of gods), not all folk can possess the ability to understand and read Sanskrit literature. Earlier, great Sanskrit scholars had expertise in describing things that are usually hard to observe in nature. The prosperous tradition of Indian aesthetics is said to have begun from Bharat Muni in and around 1^st century.

                      As there is ‘Western Criticism’ and can be called ‘Poetics’ as a proper canon, similarly, in Sanskrit there is a particular canon of Sanskrit Criticism which is usually bannered as ‘Kavya Mimamsa’ and which acts like an umbrella for various schools developed by scholarly thinkers. The various schools or theories in Indian Aestheics are- 

                  Bharata is the first among all critics who pioneered in Indian aesthetics. Some of the noteworthy critics of Sanskrit literature are-