Alamkara Sastra, The

Studies on some concepts of the Alamkara Sastra
India has a long and a great tradition of Poetics,aesthetics,dramatology and literary criticism, vouched for by the vast sanskrit literature on these topics. Dr. Raghavan in his thesis makes detailed studies of them all. Particularly interestting are his treatment of characteristics of poetry, style, beauty, propriety, use and abuse of figures of speech ,etc.,