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Name: Hirani Khushboo A.
M.A.SEM_IV
Department of English
B.K.N.M.University_ Junagadh
CORE_11 Indian Poetics
Topic: ‘Kavya and it’s Features’
What is Kavya?
 Imagination and emotion are basic concepts of kavya (Creative Literature)
 Expressed in a metrical compositions
 Poet uses words to produce images kavya excels in appealing to listeners in broader details.
Kavya
Figurative
language
Various
combination
of words and
nature
Arrangement
of structure,
word
Typical
diction
Characteristics of ‘kavya’
 Special characteristic which includes creative literature such as Prose and verse
 It is an imaginative representation of life
 Basic Concepts
1) Imagination ( Represent life)
2) Emotion ( Represent life in rhythmical language. It is called metre.
A form of literature
 Kavya is major from of literature to evoke emotions, ideas through symbols and
bring up pictures through description and using effective devices so that to Make an
appeal to the highest faculty of man, which is called the ‘SOUL’
 Kavya is characterized by some modes of expression and so it is not speaking
picture it excels in appeals to listeners in the broader details.
 Kavya is the generic value comprising of all forms of poetical composition in
Sanskrit.
Classified into two types: 1) Drsya (Audiovisual)
1. Natya (Drama)
2. Nrtta (Representation by Gestures with a musical background)
2) Sravya (Aural)
What poet do to create kavya (Poetry)
 Add sound & music to achieve his aim in the large measure
 A work of genius Kavi should aim at supplication rather than persuasion
 According to an Illustration of kavya in Allahabad stone Pillar Inscription of
‘Samudragupta’
Line 6, Verse 3, Metre: Srangdhara
“ A kavya of high standard in which the wise find manifold virtues from which lack
of grace and ignorance have been removed which is eternal in the world of learned
people and in which the verses are abundantly clear, that ‘Kavya’enjoys both fame and
royal patronage.”
Salient features of Sanskrit rhetoricians’ views on poet and poetry
 Poetry can rise to the highest realm as for instance, mantric poetry of the
Upanishads and the Vedas
 All aspects of poetry analyzed in detail from the outer most aspects like correct
word to the inner such as ‘Rasa’
 The aim of writing poetry can be money, fame pleasure and moksya
Reference
 WWW.Wikipedia.com
 R.C.Majumdar, Inscription of Kambuja, p.106
Thank you

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Kavya and it's Features

  • 1. Name: Hirani Khushboo A. M.A.SEM_IV Department of English B.K.N.M.University_ Junagadh CORE_11 Indian Poetics Topic: ‘Kavya and it’s Features’
  • 2. What is Kavya?  Imagination and emotion are basic concepts of kavya (Creative Literature)  Expressed in a metrical compositions  Poet uses words to produce images kavya excels in appealing to listeners in broader details.
  • 4. Characteristics of ‘kavya’  Special characteristic which includes creative literature such as Prose and verse  It is an imaginative representation of life  Basic Concepts 1) Imagination ( Represent life) 2) Emotion ( Represent life in rhythmical language. It is called metre.
  • 5. A form of literature  Kavya is major from of literature to evoke emotions, ideas through symbols and bring up pictures through description and using effective devices so that to Make an appeal to the highest faculty of man, which is called the ‘SOUL’  Kavya is characterized by some modes of expression and so it is not speaking picture it excels in appeals to listeners in the broader details.  Kavya is the generic value comprising of all forms of poetical composition in Sanskrit. Classified into two types: 1) Drsya (Audiovisual) 1. Natya (Drama) 2. Nrtta (Representation by Gestures with a musical background) 2) Sravya (Aural)
  • 6. What poet do to create kavya (Poetry)  Add sound & music to achieve his aim in the large measure  A work of genius Kavi should aim at supplication rather than persuasion  According to an Illustration of kavya in Allahabad stone Pillar Inscription of ‘Samudragupta’ Line 6, Verse 3, Metre: Srangdhara “ A kavya of high standard in which the wise find manifold virtues from which lack of grace and ignorance have been removed which is eternal in the world of learned people and in which the verses are abundantly clear, that ‘Kavya’enjoys both fame and royal patronage.”
  • 7. Salient features of Sanskrit rhetoricians’ views on poet and poetry  Poetry can rise to the highest realm as for instance, mantric poetry of the Upanishads and the Vedas  All aspects of poetry analyzed in detail from the outer most aspects like correct word to the inner such as ‘Rasa’  The aim of writing poetry can be money, fame pleasure and moksya