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Alaṃkāras in the Meghadūta of Kālidāsa
Tůma, Dominik ; Štipl, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Špicová, Zuzana (referee)
The Meghadūta undoubtedly occupies a spot among the principal works of Sanskrit kāvya literature, having historica kāvya as well as with modern Sanskrit scholars. A vast body of exegetical literature has been composed to accompany the poem and Mallinātha along with Vallabhadeva could with Mallinātha's commentarial contribution while drawing upon and trying to elucidate the basic theoretical principals of alaṃkāraśāstra. Firstly, it will introduce the theory tic tropes termed alaṃkāras as presented by Daṇḍin and Bhāmaha and ūta. Subsequently, it will analyse Mallinātha's view regarding the amount of poetic ūta. We can observe a contrast between Mallinātha who is eager to find instances of double meaning, or śleṣas, and the conventional approach to Kālidāsa inherited from early Indology slanted toward orientalism and viewing Kālidāsa as some of the most iconic alaṃkāras found throughout the Meghadūta and shows to what extent Mallinātha's interpretation Sanskrit literature, poetics, kāvya, alaṃkāra, Meghadūta, Kālidāsa, śleṣa, Mallinātha, Bhāmaha, Daṇḍin
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