The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta

by M.V. Patwardhan

For nearly a thousand years the brilliant analysis of aesthetic experience set forth in the Locana of Abhinavagupta, India's founding literary critic, has dominated traditional Indian theory on poetics and aesthetics. The Locana, presented here in English translation for the first time, is a commentary on the ninth-century Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana, which is itself the pivotal work in the history of Indian poetics.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674202783
• ISBN13: 9780674202788
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 847 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"