August 2025
Bāla-rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-bhārata, Karpūra-mañjarī, Viddha-śāla-bhañjikā, and Kāvya-mīmāṃsā are the works of Rājaśekhara that are available to us today. We learn that he had also authored works such as Haravijaya – an epic poem, and Bhuvanakośa, a work on geography. Among the works listed here, the first four are plays; Kāvya-mīmāṃsā is a treatise he has penned in Kauṭilya’s style – it resembles the Arthaśāstra in some features and deals with literary...