The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics

Andrew Ollett

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-283-0

The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics

Authors

Andrew Ollett

Unviersità di Chicago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-283-0

Keywords:

Prakrito, Sanskrito, Poetica

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Series Minor

ISSN: 1824-6109

Pages: 300

Language: English

Abstract: The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō) defines and exemplifies 42 figures of speech or “ornaments” in 134 verses. It is the only surviving work of poetics in Prakrit, a literary language closely related to Sanskrit. It is one of the earliest representatives of the larger Indian discourse on poetics, and is especially closely linked to Bhāmaha’s Ornament of Literature (Kāvyālaṅkāra). This book includes an introduction, annotated translation, glossary, and diplomatic and critical editions of the single surviving manuscript of the Mirror of Ornaments.

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Author Biography

Andrew Ollett, Unviersità di Chicago

Andrew Ollett works on the literary and intellectual traditions of premodern India. His research focuses on questions of language, including grammar, poetics, and theories of interpretation. He is the author of Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India (University of California Press, 2017) and an edition and translation of the Līlāvaī of Kōūhala (Harvard University Press, 2021), an 8th-century Prakrit romance. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.