Georges Dandin
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Life. Daṇḍin's account of his life in Avantisundari-katha-sara states that he was a great-grandson of Dāmodara, a court poet from Achalapura who served, among others, the Pallava king Siṃhaviṣṇu of Tamil Nadu and the Ganga king Durvinīta of Karnataka.
Dandin is a Sanskrit writer of prose romances and a poet who lives in India. He is regarded as one of Asia's most well-known writers. All of his writings were written in Sanskrit.
The Kavyadarsha (Sanskrit: काव्यादर्श, Kāvyādarśa) by Dandin is the earliest surviving systematic treatment of poetics in Sanskrit.
Since a poet Dandin (presumably distinct from a prose writer) is also mentioned in sundry ancient Indian texts, he is led to conjecture the existence of at least three distinct Dandins. Since Dandin (literally, a staff-bearer) is also a common adjective for ascetics or religious mendicants, Wilson doubted whether it was the author's proper name ...
This module talks about an Indian alamkarik or the theorist of Indian poetics Dandin. This module focuses on different ideas proposed by Dandin in his seminal work Kavyadarsha. Dandin is one of the earliest theorist in this field. He came after Bharatmuni.
Dandin was an Indian Sanskrit writer of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Scholars attribute to him with certainty only two works: the Dashakumaracharita, translated in 2005 by Isabelle Onians as What Ten Young Men Did, and the Kavyadarsha (“The Mirror of Poetry”).
Nov 16, 2009 · Dandin was a renowned Sanskrit author of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Although he produced literature on his own, most notably the Dasakumaracarita, first translated in 1927 as Hindoo Tales, or The Adventures of the Ten Princes, he is best known for composing the Kavyadarsa (‘Mirror of Poetry’), the handbook of classical ...
Dandin was an eminent Sanskrit poet known for his lucid style. A well-known Sanskrit verse, which compares the literary merits of Kalidasa, Bharavi, Magha and Dandin, mentions the last as excelling in padalalityam (lucidity of expression).
Variegated violence and sorcery figure in their exploits, but love affairs are even more prominent as both motivating factor and indispensable means. Commentators have lambasted Dandin’s heroes for their antiheroic, apparently random, escapades, while in fact the architecture of his plot reveals an elegant, instructive construction.
Dandin is a Sanskrit writer who belonged to the sixth and seventh century. His notable works are Kavyadarsa and Dasakumaracharita.
