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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Statue of Raja Bhoja 01.jpg|thumb|[[Bhoja|Raja Bhojadeva]], a king from [[Paramara dynasty]] and author of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the epic  Sringara Prakasa&lt;/del&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Statue of Raja Bhoja 01.jpg|thumb|[[Bhoja|Raja Bhojadeva]], a king from [[Paramara dynasty]] and author of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039;&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Sringara Prakasa&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{lang|sa|शृङ्गार प्रकाश}} – {{IAST|Śṛṅgāra Prakāśa}}) is a voluminous set of [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit poetry]] consisting of thirty-six chapters, documented in 1908. It deals mostly with [[Shastra|Alamkara-Shastra (rhetoric)]] and [[Rasa (aesthetics)|&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa&lt;/ins&gt;]], and is claimed to have been authored by [[Bhoja|Raja Bhoja]], the king of [[Paramara dynasty]] in the early 11th century. A large extent of this magnum opus is dedicated to [[Sringara|Sringara Rasa]], which according to Bhoja&#039;s theory: &quot;is the only one Rasa admissible.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;S K. De&quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book| last = De| first = Sushil Kumar.| title = Studies in the history of Sanskrit poetics. Vol. 1| location = London| page=148 |date = 1923| oclc = 924378855}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=Preface}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Sringara Prakasa&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{lang|sa|शृङ्गार प्रकाश}} – {{IAST|Śṛṅgāra Prakāśa}}) is a voluminous set of [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit poetry]] consisting of thirty-six chapters, documented in 1908. It deals mostly with [[Shastra|Alamkara-Shastra (rhetoric)]] and [[Rasa (aesthetics)|&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa&lt;/del&gt;]], and is claimed to have been authored by [[Bhoja|Raja Bhoja]], the king of [[Paramara dynasty]] in the early 11th century &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A.D&lt;/del&gt;. A large extent of this magnum opus is dedicated to [[Sringara|Sringara Rasa]], which according to Bhoja&#039;s theory: &quot;is the only one Rasa admissible.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;S K. De&quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book| last = De| first = Sushil Kumar.| title = Studies in the history of Sanskrit poetics. Vol. 1| location = London| page=148 |date = 1923| oclc = 924378855}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=Preface}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Overview==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Overview==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A specialist on the subject, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, considered &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sringara Prakasa &lt;/del&gt;as the most &quot;detailed and provocative&quot; discourse on &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]]&lt;/del&gt;.{{sfn|Pollock|1998| p=119}} According to [[Pandurang_Vaman_Kane|P.V. Kane]], &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sringara Prakasa &lt;/del&gt;can be considered as an encyclopaedia of various branches in [[Sanskrit literature]] such as [[Darsana]]s, poetry, and dramaturgy, written extensively by quoting numerous works which existed in that period.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Kane&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kane |first1=P V. |title=Bhoja&#039;s Sringara Prakasa- Review |journal=Sahitya Akademi |date=1964 |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=125 |jstor=23329261 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Some have argued, however, that no Sanskrit literature was developed after [[Abhinavagupta]]&#039;s &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa &lt;/del&gt;literature &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;- &lt;/del&gt;[[Abhinavabharati]]. But scholars such as [[V Raghavan]] and [[Sheldon Pollock]] disagree with this view and assert that Bhojadevs&#039;s &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sringara Prakasa &lt;/del&gt;can be considered as an equally profound Sanskrit literature as Abhinavaguptas&#039; Abhinavabharati.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Okita&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kiyakazu |first1=Okita |title=From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of a Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia |journal=Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies |date=2017 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=28 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/3/65_1066/_article/-char/ja/}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Carl Olson translated the title as &quot;Revelation of Love&quot; and described it as an expression of self-love, which according to Bhoja, was a much higher and most often expressed form of emotion in the world. He further interprets the poetry as an emotion of love which refines the human ego [[Ahamkara]] and develops self-consciousness [[Abhimana]] in a person.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Olson&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Carl |title=Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Part I, adhyāya 1-14 by Venkatarama Raghavan- Book Review |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |date=August 2002 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=20106818 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A specialist on the subject, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, considered &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039; &lt;/ins&gt;as the most &quot;detailed and provocative&quot; discourse on &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa&lt;/ins&gt;.{{sfn|Pollock|1998| p=119}} According to [[Pandurang_Vaman_Kane|P.V. Kane]], &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039; &lt;/ins&gt;can be considered as an encyclopaedia of various branches in [[Sanskrit literature]] such as [[Darsana]]s, poetry, and dramaturgy, written extensively by quoting numerous works which existed in that period.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Kane&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kane |first1=P V. |title=Bhoja&#039;s Sringara Prakasa- Review |journal=Sahitya Akademi |date=1964 |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=125 |jstor=23329261 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Some have argued, however, that no Sanskrit literature was developed after [[Abhinavagupta]]&#039;s &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa &lt;/ins&gt;literature &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;– &lt;/ins&gt;[[Abhinavabharati]]. But scholars such as [[V Raghavan]] and [[Sheldon Pollock]] disagree with this view and assert that Bhojadevs&#039;s &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039; &lt;/ins&gt;can be considered as an equally profound Sanskrit literature as Abhinavaguptas&#039; Abhinavabharati.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Okita&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kiyakazu |first1=Okita |title=From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of a Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia |journal=Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies |date=2017 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=28 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/3/65_1066/_article/-char/ja/}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Carl Olson translated the title as &quot;Revelation of Love&quot; and described it as an expression of self-love, which according to Bhoja, was a much higher and most often expressed form of emotion in the world. He further interprets the poetry as an emotion of love which refines the human ego [[Ahamkara]] and develops self-consciousness [[Abhimana]] in a person.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Olson&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Carl |title=Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Part I, adhyāya 1-14 by Venkatarama Raghavan- Book Review |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |date=August 2002 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=20106818 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Translations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though many scholars have attempted to translate this magnum opus of Raja Bhojadeva, Sheldon Pollock&#039;s and Dr. V Raghavan&#039;s works are considered as dominant interpretations.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Cox2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal|last1=Cox|first1=Whitney|title=Bhoja&#039;s Alternate Universe|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain &amp;amp; Ireland|volume=22|issue=1|year=2012|pages=58|issn=0035-869X|doi=10.1017/S1356186311000770}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Pollock notes that in spite of the fact that the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sringara Prakasa &lt;/del&gt;is so relevant in the current time because of its content and its similarity with existing Sanskrit literature including its organization and style, it had not attracted much attention except in South India and Bengal. During the mid-20th century, there were claims of only four incomplete manuscripts available, out of which two were transcripts of a third one. But, V. Raghavan&#039;s translated commentary based on the fourth manuscript is considered valuable among scholars even today.{{sfn|Pollock|1998|p=117-118}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though many scholars have attempted to translate this magnum opus of Raja Bhojadeva, Sheldon Pollock&#039;s and Dr. V Raghavan&#039;s works are considered as dominant interpretations.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Cox2012&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal|last1=Cox|first1=Whitney|title=Bhoja&#039;s Alternate Universe|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain &amp;amp; Ireland|volume=22|issue=1|year=2012|pages=58|issn=0035-869X|doi=10.1017/S1356186311000770&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|s2cid=162040263 &lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Pollock notes that in spite of the fact that the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039; &lt;/ins&gt;is so relevant in the current time because of its content and its similarity with existing Sanskrit literature including its organization and style, it had not attracted much attention except in South India and Bengal. During the mid-20th century, there were claims of only four incomplete manuscripts available, out of which two were transcripts of a third one. But, V. Raghavan&#039;s translated commentary based on the fourth manuscript is considered valuable among scholars even today.{{sfn|Pollock|1998|p=117-118}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Cantos==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Cantos==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This work of Bhoja is different from his other, smaller works such as [[Sarasvati-Kanthabharana|Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhabharaṇa]]. The name &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sringara Prakasa &lt;/del&gt;bears significance as it attempts to deal with Sringara Rasa of Ahamkara and Abhimana. In chapter I, Bhoja talks about &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa &lt;/del&gt;as the &quot;greatest element by virtue&quot;, and thus, men are called Rasikas accordingly. This is invoked through [[Kavya]] drama and poetry. There, Bhoja refers to [[Bhamaha]] and attempts to unite the two by calling them &quot;शब्दार्थो सहितौ काव्यम&quot;: Poetry is word ([[Sabda]]) and sense ([[Artha]]) united. Most of the content in chapter I-VI deals with grammar, word, sense, and [[Sahitya]]. Chapters VII-VIII deal with the relationship between Sabda and Artha, and defining Sahitya by dividing it into Sabda and Artha.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=8}} Chapter IX deals with poetical relations with Sahitya,{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=89}} whereas chapter X is primarily about different kinds of Alamkaras. In chapter XI, Bhoja calls his work as &quot;Sahitya-&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Prakasa&lt;/del&gt;&quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=181}} and gives more importance to &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa &lt;/del&gt;by saying: &quot;A poetry may be as much flawless by adopting Alamkara, but every poet should pay apt attention to the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa&lt;/del&gt;, as it is the greatest factor of beauty and in the absence of it, all other beauties are in vain.&quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=416}} In chapter XII, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasa&lt;/del&gt;, as well as the structure of drama are discussed. Chapter XIII classifies Ahamkara-Sringar into four: [[Dharma]], [[Artha]], [[Kama]], and [[Moksa]] and briefly describes the activities to be fulfilled to achieve the four purusharthas.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=444}} The rest of this voluminous works deals with &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Rasas&lt;/del&gt;, the greatest Sahitya of Sabda and Artha in Kavya.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=9}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This work of Bhoja is different from his other, smaller works such as [[Sarasvati-Kanthabharana|Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhabharaṇa]]. The name &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Shringara-Prakasha&#039;&#039; &lt;/ins&gt;bears significance as it attempts to deal with Sringara Rasa of Ahamkara and Abhimana. In chapter I, Bhoja talks about &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa &lt;/ins&gt;as the &quot;greatest element by virtue&quot;, and thus, men are called Rasikas accordingly. This is invoked through [[Kavya]] drama and poetry. There, Bhoja refers to [[Bhamaha]] and attempts to unite the two by calling them &quot;शब्दार्थो सहितौ काव्यम&quot;: Poetry is word ([[Sabda]]) and sense ([[Artha]]) united. Most of the content in chapter I-VI deals with grammar, word, sense, and [[&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Dasa sahitya|&lt;/ins&gt;Sahitya]]. Chapters VII-VIII deal with the relationship between Sabda and Artha, and defining Sahitya by dividing it into Sabda and Artha.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=8}} Chapter IX deals with poetical relations with Sahitya,{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=89}} whereas chapter X is primarily about different kinds of Alamkaras. In chapter XI, Bhoja calls his work as &quot;Sahitya-&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Prakasha&lt;/ins&gt;&quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=181}} and gives more importance to &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa &lt;/ins&gt;by saying: &quot;A poetry may be as much flawless by adopting Alamkara, but every poet should pay apt attention to the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa&lt;/ins&gt;, as it is the greatest factor of beauty and in the absence of it, all other beauties are in vain.&quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=416}} In chapter XII, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasa&lt;/ins&gt;, as well as the structure of drama are discussed. Chapter XIII classifies Ahamkara-Sringar into four: [[Dharma]], [[Artha]], [[Kama]], and [[Moksa]] and briefly describes the activities to be fulfilled to achieve the four purusharthas.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=444}} The rest of this voluminous works deals with &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;rasas&lt;/ins&gt;, the greatest Sahitya of Sabda and Artha in Kavya.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=9}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Overview==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Overview==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A specialist on the subject, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, considered Sringara Prakasa as the most &quot;detailed and provocative&quot; discourse on [[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]].{{sfn|Pollock|1998| p=119}} Some have argued, however, that no Sanskrit literature was developed after [[Abhinavagupta]]&#039;s Rasa literature - [[Abhinavabharati]]. But scholars such as [[V Raghavan]] and [[Sheldon Pollock]] disagree with this view and assert that Bhojadevs&#039;s Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an equally profound Sanskrit literature as Abhinavaguptas&#039; Abhinavabharati.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Okita&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kiyakazu |first1=Okita |title=From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of a Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia |journal=Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies |date=2017 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=28 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/3/65_1066/_article/-char/ja/}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Carl Olson translated the title as &quot;Revelation of Love&quot; and described it as an expression of self-love, which according to Bhoja, was a much higher and most often expressed form of emotion in the world. He further interprets the poetry as an emotion of love which refines the human ego [[Ahamkara]] and develops self-consciousness [[Abhimana]] in a person.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Olson&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Carl |title=Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Part I, adhyāya 1-14 by Venkatarama Raghavan- Book Review |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |date=August 2002 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=20106818 &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  According to P.V.Kane, Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an encyclopaedia of various branches in [[Sanskrit literature]] such as [[Darsana]]s, poetry, and dramaturgy, written extensively by quoting numerous works which existed in that period.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Kane&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kane |first1=P V. |title=Bhoja&#039;s Sringara Prakasa- Review |journal=Sahitya Akademi |date=1964 |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=125 |jstor=23329261 &lt;/del&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A specialist on the subject, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, considered Sringara Prakasa as the most &quot;detailed and provocative&quot; discourse on [[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]].{{sfn|Pollock|1998| p=119}} &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;According to [[Pandurang_Vaman_Kane|P.V. Kane]], Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an encyclopaedia of various branches in [[Sanskrit literature]] such as [[Darsana]]s, poetry, and dramaturgy, written extensively by quoting numerous works which existed in that period.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Kane&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kane |first1=P V. |title=Bhoja&#039;s Sringara Prakasa- Review |journal=Sahitya Akademi |date=1964 |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=125 |jstor=23329261 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;/ins&gt;Some have argued, however, that no Sanskrit literature was developed after [[Abhinavagupta]]&#039;s Rasa literature - [[Abhinavabharati]]. But scholars such as [[V Raghavan]] and [[Sheldon Pollock]] disagree with this view and assert that Bhojadevs&#039;s Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an equally profound Sanskrit literature as Abhinavaguptas&#039; Abhinavabharati.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Okita&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kiyakazu |first1=Okita |title=From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of a Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia |journal=Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies |date=2017 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=28 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/3/65_1066/_article/-char/ja/}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Carl Olson translated the title as &quot;Revelation of Love&quot; and described it as an expression of self-love, which according to Bhoja, was a much higher and most often expressed form of emotion in the world. He further interprets the poetry as an emotion of love which refines the human ego [[Ahamkara]] and develops self-consciousness [[Abhimana]] in a person.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Olson&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Carl |title=Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Part I, adhyāya 1-14 by Venkatarama Raghavan- Book Review |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |date=August 2002 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=20106818 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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[[File:Statue of Raja Bhoja 01.jpg|thumb|[[Bhoja|Raja Bhojadeva]], a king from [[Paramara dynasty]] and author of the epic  Sringara Prakasa]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Sringara Prakasa&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ({{lang|sa|शृङ्गार प्रकाश}} – {{IAST|Śṛṅgāra Prakāśa}}) is a voluminous set of [[Sanskrit literature|Sanskrit poetry]] consisting of thirty-six chapters, documented in 1908. It deals mostly with [[Shastra|Alamkara-Shastra (rhetoric)]] and [[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]], and is claimed to have been authored by [[Bhoja|Raja Bhoja]], the king of [[Paramara dynasty]] in the early 11th century A.D. A large extent of this magnum opus is dedicated to [[Sringara|Sringara Rasa]], which according to Bhoja&amp;#039;s theory: &amp;quot;is the only one Rasa admissible.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;S K. De&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{Cite book| last = De| first = Sushil Kumar.| title = Studies in the history of Sanskrit poetics. Vol. 1| location = London| page=148 |date = 1923| oclc = 924378855}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=Preface}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Overview==&lt;br /&gt;
A specialist on the subject, Sivaprasad Bhattacharya, considered Sringara Prakasa as the most &amp;quot;detailed and provocative&amp;quot; discourse on [[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]].{{sfn|Pollock|1998| p=119}} Some have argued, however, that no Sanskrit literature was developed after [[Abhinavagupta]]&amp;#039;s Rasa literature - [[Abhinavabharati]]. But scholars such as [[V Raghavan]] and [[Sheldon Pollock]] disagree with this view and assert that Bhojadevs&amp;#039;s Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an equally profound Sanskrit literature as Abhinavaguptas&amp;#039; Abhinavabharati.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Okita&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kiyakazu |first1=Okita |title=From Rasa to Bhaktirasa: The Development of a Devotional Aesthetic Theory in Early Modern South Asia |journal=Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies |date=2017 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=28 |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/3/65_1066/_article/-char/ja/}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Carl Olson translated the title as &amp;quot;Revelation of Love&amp;quot; and described it as an expression of self-love, which according to Bhoja, was a much higher and most often expressed form of emotion in the world. He further interprets the poetry as an emotion of love which refines the human ego [[Ahamkara]] and develops self-consciousness [[Abhimana]] in a person.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Olson&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Olson |first1=Carl |title=Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja. Part I, adhyāya 1-14 by Venkatarama Raghavan- Book Review |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |date=August 2002 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=20106818 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  According to P.V.Kane, Sringara Prakasa can be considered as an encyclopaedia of various branches in [[Sanskrit literature]] such as [[Darsana]]s, poetry, and dramaturgy, written extensively by quoting numerous works which existed in that period.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Kane&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Kane |first1=P V. |title=Bhoja&amp;#039;s Sringara Prakasa- Review |journal=Sahitya Akademi |date=1964 |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=125 |jstor=23329261 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Translations==&lt;br /&gt;
Though many scholars have attempted to translate this magnum opus of Raja Bhojadeva, Sheldon Pollock&amp;#039;s and Dr. V Raghavan&amp;#039;s works are considered as dominant interpretations.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Cox2012&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite journal|last1=Cox|first1=Whitney|title=Bhoja&amp;#039;s Alternate Universe|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain &amp;amp; Ireland|volume=22|issue=1|year=2012|pages=58|issn=0035-869X|doi=10.1017/S1356186311000770}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Pollock notes that in spite of the fact that the Sringara Prakasa is so relevant in the current time because of its content and its similarity with existing Sanskrit literature including its organization and style, it had not attracted much attention except in South India and Bengal. During the mid-20th century, there were claims of only four incomplete manuscripts available, out of which two were transcripts of a third one. But, V. Raghavan&amp;#039;s translated commentary based on the fourth manuscript is considered valuable among scholars even today.{{sfn|Pollock|1998|p=117-118}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==The Cantos==&lt;br /&gt;
This work of Bhoja is different from his other, smaller works such as [[Sarasvati-Kanthabharana|Sarasvatī-kaṇṭhabharaṇa]]. The name Sringara Prakasa bears significance as it attempts to deal with Sringara Rasa of Ahamkara and Abhimana. In chapter I, Bhoja talks about Rasa as the &amp;quot;greatest element by virtue&amp;quot;, and thus, men are called Rasikas accordingly. This is invoked through [[Kavya]] drama and poetry. There, Bhoja refers to [[Bhamaha]] and attempts to unite the two by calling them &amp;quot;शब्दार्थो सहितौ काव्यम&amp;quot;: Poetry is word ([[Sabda]]) and sense ([[Artha]]) united. Most of the content in chapter I-VI deals with grammar, word, sense, and [[Sahitya]]. Chapters VII-VIII deal with the relationship between Sabda and Artha, and defining Sahitya by dividing it into Sabda and Artha.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=8}} Chapter IX deals with poetical relations with Sahitya,{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=89}} whereas chapter X is primarily about different kinds of Alamkaras. In chapter XI, Bhoja calls his work as &amp;quot;Sahitya-Prakasa&amp;quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=181}} and gives more importance to Rasa by saying: &amp;quot;A poetry may be as much flawless by adopting Alamkara, but every poet should pay apt attention to the Rasa, as it is the greatest factor of beauty and in the absence of it, all other beauties are in vain.&amp;quot;{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=416}} In chapter XII, Rasa, as well as the structure of drama are discussed. Chapter XIII classifies Ahamkara-Sringar into four: [[Dharma]], [[Artha]], [[Kama]], and [[Moksa]] and briefly describes the activities to be fulfilled to achieve the four purusharthas.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=444}} The rest of this voluminous works deals with Rasas, the greatest Sahitya of Sabda and Artha in Kavya.{{sfn|Raghavan|1978|p=9}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Bibliography==&lt;br /&gt;
* {{citation |last1=Pollock |first1=Sheldon |title=Bhojs&amp;#039;s Śṛṅgāraprakāśa and the Problem of Rasa: A Historical Introductionand Translation |journal=Asiatische Studien |date=1998 |volume=70 |issue=1 |url=http://sheldonpollock.org/texts/articles/ |access-date=5 June 2020}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{Citation| publisher = Raghavan| last = Raghavan| first = V| title = Bhoja&amp;#039;s Śr̥ṅgāra prakāśa| location = Madras| date = 1978| oclc = 557602551}}&lt;br /&gt;
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