2023, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Part C

author(s)
Dr. Debajyoti Jena

abstract
Sāhityadarpaṇa is a master piece of Viśvanātha Kavirāja in respect to Lakṣanagrantha. To establish the nature and understand the enormity of poetry, Viśvanātha Kavirāja has made a tremendous effort by writing such a text. Apart from the other aspects of the Poetry as described in Sāhityadarpaṇa, the Doṣaprakaraṇa of Seventh chapter clarifies the different kinds of blemishes which are to be properly addressed by the poet to find out a better result of creation of poetry. In this research paper, an attempt has been made to highlight the Blemishes related to Rasa (Rasadoṣa) in an exclusive manner.