[INDOLOGY] training in poetic composition in traditional Sanskrit education?

[Richard Salomon]

Dear Allen,

I seem to remember that there is some material about composing or 
imitating verses as training exercises for would-be poets in 
Rajasekhara's Kavyamimamsa (and/or in related works). Sorry for the 
vague reference!

Rich

On 8/28/2015 3:46 PM, Madhav Deshpande wrote:
> Dear Allen,
>
>       In Pune, we were positively encouraged to compose verses in
> Sanskrit.  My highschool Sanskrit teacher, Pandit N. N. Bhide, routinely
> asked us to translate from Marathi into Sanskrit verse.  The Tilak
> Maharashtra Vidyapith used to hold various annual competitions on the
> occasion of Vyāsapūjā including story-telling, verse-composition, quick
> memorization, Sanskrit debate etc.  So, composing verses in Sanskrit was
> encouraged in Pune, not only in the more traditional institutions, but
> also in modern institutions like the S. P. College and Fergusson
> College.  Several of our teachers used to compose poems in Sanskrit and
> publish them in the local Sanskrit journals like Śāradā and Bhāratavāṇī,
> and also in the annual magazines of Fergusson College etc.  I am
> describing my historical experience, but some of these activities are
> continuing into modern times as well.
>
> Madhav
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Allen Thrasher via INDOLOGY
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>     Subject: training in poetic composition in traditional Sanskrit
>     education?
>      From reading about traditional (Early Modern and Modern) Western
>     training in Latin and Greek, in which composition was an important
>     part, I am led to wonder if it was standard in traditional
>     Sanskritic education for students to be assigned to compose verse,
>     either the basic Zloka for expository works or more elaborate
>     kavya.  Any thoughts or evidence.
>
>     Allen
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> Madhav M. Deshpande
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Richard Salomon
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington, Box 353521
Seattle WA 98195-3521
USA