Concept of Riti and Guna in Sanskrit Poetics (An Old and Rare Book)

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The present book deals in detail with the concepts of Riti and Guna. The author has traced the concepts of Guna and Riti from Bharata to Panditraj Jagannatha. The author, Dr. P.C. Lahari has been very methodical and scientific in his treatment and possesses a deeper understanding of the subject. The present monograph is divided in eight chapters illustrating and elaborting the ideas of different Acharyas on Guna & Riti from earliest period to 18th cent. A.D. Though written long back but it is still afresh for both, the students and the scholors of Indian poetics.

Preface

The following pages present substantially my Doctorate Thesis submitted in 1934. The object of the investigation is to study two of the Concepts of Sanskrit Alamkara, vix, Guna and Riti, which are intimately allied to each other, in the different creative writers of the Sastra. This has involved a close and minute study of the texts themselves some of which (e.g. Bharata’s texts as well as those of the Agnipurana are indeed difficult and obscure. No pains have been spared to examine the Concepts critically from the available sources and as the subject has not been studied in such detail by any previous writer, it is believed that the present thesis will serve to extend, to some extent, the, bounds of our knowledge of the topics treated. An attempt has‘ been made to trace the historical development of the Concepts as they unfold themselves in the works of all standard writers down to the time of Jagannatha. An historical development of a subject essentially requires a knowledge of the chronology of the period treated. But in view of the fact that in the present case the chronology has already been ably discussed by previous scholars and that there is a general agreement among them all, except in one or two points, I have not thought it necessary to take up the whole question anew. In course of my study; I have incidentally touched upon :