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Śṛṅgāraprakāśa

The Śṛṅgāraprakāśa is an encyclopaedic work in the Sanskrit poetics tradition (alaṃkāraśāstra) treating the erotic sentiment (śṛṅgāra rasa) and many other topics in poetics as well as in the philosophy of language. Its author is Bhoja.

Approximate Date of Creation

1000 AD

Location

Central India

Author

Bhoja

Text Type

References

Raghavan, Venkatarama (ed.) (1998), Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University.

Linguistic Notions

The term 'ellipsis' in grammatical theory most generally refers to linguistic material being omitted, deleted, or simply left unpronounced. The omitted material is needed for the full interpreta...

Authors

Bhoja is the author of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa.

Sanskrit Words

A Sanskrit word/form

Technical term, 'the part of a sentence which is wanting and has to be supplied, the words needed to complete an elliptical sentence'

Linguistic Traditions

Alaṃkāraśāstra

The Alaṃkāraśāstra is the native tradition of Sanskrit poetics, rhetoric, and literary theory. It functions as a kind of grammar to the language of the kāvya literature (Bronne...

Linguistic Fields

The field of syntactic study focuses on the rules and principles governing the possible surface and abstract functional relations between words (and in non-lexicalist theories, parts of words) i...