Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta
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The Locana is Abhinavagupta’s influential Sanskrit commentary that offers a profound Kashmiri Shaiva aesthetic and philosophical interpretation of Ānandavardhana’s seminal work Dhvanyāloka on poetic suggestion (dhvani).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Locana (Abhinavagupta’s commentary on Dhvanyāloka) | 1 |
| Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta Context triple: [Dhvanyāloka, relatedWork, Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta]
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Ślokavārttika
Ślokavārttika is a foundational Sanskrit philosophical treatise of the Mīmāṃsā school, offering an extensive verse commentary and defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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B.
Anubhashya
Anubhashya is a Sanskrit commentary on the Brahma Sutras composed by the Hindu philosopher Vallabhacharya, foundational to the Pushtimarg (Path of Grace) tradition.
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Sri Bhashya
Sri Bhashya is Ramanujacharya’s authoritative Sanskrit commentary on the Brahma Sutras, foundational to the Vishishtadvaita school of Vedanta philosophy.
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D.
Tantrasāra
Tantrasāra is a key philosophical and theological treatise by the Kashmiri polymath Abhinavagupta that systematically presents the core doctrines of non-dual Shaiva Tantra.
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E.
Mahābhāṣya Dīpikā
Mahābhāṣya Dīpikā is an influential Sanskrit grammatical commentary by the philosopher-linguist Bhartṛhari on Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta Target entity description: The Locana is Abhinavagupta’s influential Sanskrit commentary that offers a profound Kashmiri Shaiva aesthetic and philosophical interpretation of Ānandavardhana’s seminal work Dhvanyāloka on poetic suggestion (dhvani).
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A.
Ślokavārttika
Ślokavārttika is a foundational Sanskrit philosophical treatise of the Mīmāṃsā school, offering an extensive verse commentary and defense of Vedic ritualism and epistemology.
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B.
Anubhashya
Anubhashya is a Sanskrit commentary on the Brahma Sutras composed by the Hindu philosopher Vallabhacharya, foundational to the Pushtimarg (Path of Grace) tradition.
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C.
Sri Bhashya
Sri Bhashya is Ramanujacharya’s authoritative Sanskrit commentary on the Brahma Sutras, foundational to the Vishishtadvaita school of Vedanta philosophy.
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D.
Tantrasāra
Tantrasāra is a key philosophical and theological treatise by the Kashmiri polymath Abhinavagupta that systematically presents the core doctrines of non-dual Shaiva Tantra.
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E.
Mahābhāṣya Dīpikā
Mahābhāṣya Dīpikā is an influential Sanskrit grammatical commentary by the philosopher-linguist Bhartṛhari on Patañjali’s Mahābhāṣya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sanskrit commentary
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aesthetic treatise ⓘ literary criticism work ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Abhinavagupta ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Dhvanyāloka ⓘ |
| author | Abhinavagupta ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | dhvani (poetic suggestion) ⓘ |
| commentaryOn |
Dhvanyāloka
ⓘ
Ānandavardhana’s Dhvanyāloka ⓘ |
| commentaryType |
aesthetic commentary
ⓘ
philosophical commentary ⓘ |
| discusses |
aesthetic experience (rasa) as a form of transcendence
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relationship between dhvani and rasa ⓘ |
| field |
Indian philosophy of art
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Sanskrit literary theory ⓘ |
| genre | commentary (ṭīkā) ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dhvanyāloka
ⓘ
Indian aesthetic theory ⓘ Kashmiri Śaiva philosophy ⓘ
linked to:
Kashmir Shaivism
Ānandavardhana ⓘ
linked to:
Anandavardhana
|
| influenceOn |
Indian aesthetic theory
ⓘ
Kashmiri Śaiva aesthetics ⓘ later Sanskrit poetics ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| period | c. 10th–11th century CE ⓘ |
| philosophicalOrientation |
Kashmiri Śaiva aesthetics
ⓘ
linked to:
Kashmir school of poetics
|
| philosophicalStance | non-dual (advaya) Śaivism applied to aesthetics ⓘ |
| preservedIn | Sanskrit manuscripts ⓘ |
| region | Kashmir ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
pratibhā (poetic intuition)
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rasa (aesthetic relish) ⓘ vyañjanā (suggestion as a linguistic function) ⓘ |
| relatedTradition |
Alankāraśāstra (Indian poetics)
ⓘ
linked to:
Alaṅkāraśāstra (Sanskrit poetics)
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| role |
expands Dhvanyāloka’s theory of dhvani
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integrates poetics with non-dual Śaiva metaphysics ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Indology
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comparative literature ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| subject |
Sanskrit poetics
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aesthetics ⓘ poetic suggestion (dhvani) ⓘ rasa theory ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | “Locana” means “eye” or “vision” in Sanskrit ⓘ |
| tradition |
Kashmiri Śaivism
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linked to:
Kashmir Shaivism
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| workOf | Abhinavagupta’s corpus ⓘ |
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Subject: Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta Description of subject: The Locana is Abhinavagupta’s influential Sanskrit commentary that offers a profound Kashmiri Shaiva aesthetic and philosophical interpretation of Ānandavardhana’s seminal work Dhvanyāloka on poetic suggestion (dhvani).
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subject linked to:
Alaṅkāraśāstra (Sanskrit poetics)
linked to: Locana commentary by Abhinavagupta