• Mridusmita Bharadwaj

ABSTRACT Sanskrit literature has been reflecting the Indian society from the time immemorial. The culture and civilization of Indian society is indispensably associated with Sanskrit literature. The poets have composed works adjoining different themes and styles which exhibit the real scenario of the society. This has been revealing the different themes of the literary forms like historical, fictional, worldly, unworldly etc. The variations of themes can be observed in the works of the prominent writers like Aśvaghoṣa, Bhāsa, Kālidasa, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Śudraka, Kalhaṇa, Bhavabhūti and others. On the basis of the literary works, the rhetoricians have composed works on poetics to assimilate new ideas. The conventional Sanskrit rhetoricians like Bharatamuni, Bhāmaha, Daṇḍin, Mammaṭa Bhaṭṭa, Viśvanātha Kavirāja asserted the features of the literary forms reflecting the scenario of their corresponding societies. There have been a rapid change in the society particularly after the Renaissance and then after the Industrial Revolutions. The tradition and culture had drastically changed and as a result, the value and ethics of the society could not cope with the ideas that were reflected in the literature of the Modern Sanskrit scholars. Abhiraja Rajendra Mishra is one of those scholars who tried to reconnect the lost link between the old world and the new. The challenge before the Modern Sanskrit rhetoricians and poets is to establish the acceptability of the new themes and ideas in the minds of the readers. Literary forms like Galajjalikā and Chandomuktakāvya acquires high rate of popularity in amongst the Sanskrit readers. The flexibility associated with its composition also helps the Sanskrit poets to increase the production of these two literary forms. However the themes of these forms can relate to the emotions of the readers. These literary forms have been composed in lucid manners, so that, everyone can relish the sentiment from these works. The present paper tries to focus on describing the concepts of Galajjalikā and Chandomuktakāvya which are new to the field of Sanskrit literature. The paper attempts to explain the canons of these literary forms with suitable examples.

Galajjalikā, Chandomuktakāvya, Sanskrit, Poetics.

"Contemporary Literary Forms- Galajjalikā and Chandomuktakāvya through the lens of Abhirājayaśobhūṣaṇam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.100-104, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N16.pdf

"Contemporary Literary Forms- Galajjalikā and Chandomuktakāvya through the lens of Abhirājayaśobhūṣaṇam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp100-104, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N16.pdf