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{{Short description|Kashmiri poet and literary theorist}}
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'''Rudrata''' ({{langx|sa|रुद्रट}}, {{IAST|Rudraṭa}}) ({{circa|9th-century<ref name="shastri">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYxpvZLg4hAC&q=Rudrata+ninth+century&pg=PA151|title=A Concise History of Classical Sanskrit Literature|last=Shastri|first=Gaurinath|year=1998|orig-year=1943|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=81-208-0175-X|page=151}}</ref>}}) was a [[Kashmir|Kashmiri]] poet and literary theorist, who wrote a work called the ''Kavyalankara'' in the first quarter of the ninth century.<ref name="shastri"/> Very little is known about Rudrata. From Namisadhu's commentary on the verses 12-14 of the fifth chapter of the ''Kavyalankara'', it is inferred that he was also known as Shatananda and his father's name was Bhamuka.<ref name="Kane">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLiCSTFOGnMC&q=rudrata&pg=PA151|title=History of Sanskrit Poetics|last=Kane|first=P. V.|pages=151–60|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=81-208-0274-8|year=1998|orig-year=1971}}</ref>
==Kavyalankara==
It is a notable work in the line of poeticians such as [[Bhamaha]], [[Daṇḍin|Dandin]] and [[Anandavardhana]]. It is divided into 16 chapters and it comprises 734 verses, excluding 14 verses in the 12th chapter on eight types of ''[[Ashta Nayika|Nayika]]'', which are considered as the later interpolations. Most of the work was composed in the ''Arya'' metre with a few exceptions, particularly at the end of the chapters. The 13th chapter, comprising only 17 verses is the shortest one. The 7th and the 8th chapters, comprising 111 and 110 verses are the longest. The first chapter begins with the invocation of [[Ganesha]] and [[Parvati|Gauri]].<ref name="Kane"/>
It is also noted among [[chess]] [[historians]] for containing one of the earliest references to chess in India, and the earliest example of a [[knight's tour]]. In Sanskrit literary theory, it is notable for articulating the idea of ''auchitya'', or propriety of theme.
It represents, in a sense, the culmination of the ''alankara''-focused tradition in Sanskrit poetics.
===Commentaries===
Three known commentaries are written on the ''Kavyalankara''. The most significant commentary was written by Namisadhu, a [[Śvetāmbara]] [[Jain]] and pupil of Shalibhadra in 1125 [[Vikrama Samvat]] (1068-69). Other two commentaries on this work were written by Vallabhadeva and Gopalabhatta. Gopalabhatta's commentary is titled ''Rasatarangini''.<ref name="Kane"/>
==Notes==
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==References==
* ''A History of Chess'', Murray
* Edwin Gerrow, ''Sanskrit poetics'' in History of Indian Literature
* S. K. De, ''History of Sanskrit Poetics''
* [[P. V. Kane]], ''History of Sanskrit Poetics''
==External links==
* [http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/DigitalBook/K/Kavyaalnakararudrata.pdf Kavalankara of Rudrata], Sanskrit text
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