Thecelebrated Sanskrit poet, literary critic and grammarian, Jagannatha, with thetitle of Panditaraja conferred on him by Emperor Shahjahan and immortalised byhis Piyush Lahiri or Ganga Lahiri, is well known as the author of Rasagangadharawhich is considered as his magnum opus. This book, one of his 15 extant andnon-extant creations, is a sublime work on poetics written in the prose form andis deliberately left incomplete on the model of Appayya Dikshit’s Chitramimansa.The English translation of the first part of the masterpiece attempted inthe present book is praiseworthy and disproves the oft-quoted remark thatSanskrit is a dead language. The work succeeds in bringing out the richness ofSanskrit poetry as well as prose.

Nanarthe shakri niyamaka nirupanam, Shabda shaktimulako dhwani, Abhidha nirupanam.