Indų Poetikos Raida: Vamana Ir Radžasekhara
The Development of Indian Poetics: Vamana and Rajasekhara

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the development of Indian alamkarashastra poetic tradition during the period of its maturity and decline. The main system making part of that tradition was teaching on alam kāra, which means embellishment. The most famous representatives of the period were Vamana and Rajasekhara. The article analyzes their poetic conceptions. At the beginning it unfolds the peculiarities of Vamana aesthetics, its relations with preceding ones; analyzes teaching on the two different types of poets, artistic style, cognition of the laws of metrics, and problems of a plot; discusses Vamana’s theories of creative potentiality and peculiarities of creative process. Later it discusses Rajasekhara’s aesthetic theory, analyzes his teaching on embellishments, artistic style; spotlights his craving for polemics, defiance to tradition, attention shifting from the analysis of formal aspects of poetry to the analysis of the problems of artistic creative work; plumbs the depths of creativity. It pays special attention to his teaching on concentration, inspiration, and discipline.

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