The purpose of studying Indian Aesthetics is to familiarize the students to some of the theories of art in the Indian philosophical tradition. The course helps students to know about the concepts of rasa and its constituents. It also focuses to explain the concept of dhvani. The Indian Aesthetics or Indian philosophication of beauty is concrete, particular and localized. This course deals with 4 modules. The first module is about the Indian terminology for art and also explains about Saundarya Sastra. The next module deals with the theory of rasa in the context of drama. This module gives a clear view about rasa theory, which includes rasa bhava and rasa vibhava. The third module is about the theory of rasa in the context of poetry. Kavyasastra and alamkara are the main topics in this module. The last module gives an idea about the theory of dhvani. In this module the main topics are functions of words and the varieties of dhvani.
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