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भट्टनायक (bhaTTanAyaka)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
भट्ट—नायक
m.
N.
 of a poet and a rhetorician,
Cat.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
भट्ट नायक a writer on Alaṃkāra. Quoted by Abhina-
vagupta in Dhvanyālokalocana, in Kāvyaprakāśa p. 43,
by Ruyyaka Oxf. 210^a, Śp. p. 44, Sbhv.
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Bhaṭṭa-nāyaka (EI 9), see Bhaṭṭa and Nāyaka (chief of a
district) as well as Bhaṭṭa-mahattara. Cf. also Paṭṭa-nāyaka
of medieval Orissan epigraphs.
पुराणम्
English
भट्टनायक / BHAṬṬANĀYAKA. A literary critic who flourished in the 10th century A.D. in india. He composed a critical study on the science of dance (Nāṭya) named Hṛdayadarpaṇa based on the Nāṭya śāstra of bharata. But, the book has not been found out, yet. Contesting the dhvanivāda (the rhetorical theory that in poetry suggested or implied meaning is superior to the explicit meanning) of Ānandavardhanācārya, he established the rasavāda (that sentiment is supreme in poetry). Abhinavagupta also has supported the rasavāda. Hence, it may be inferred that bhaṭṭanāyaka lived in the period after ānandavardhana and anterior to Abhinavagupta. Bhaṭṭanāyaka's theory is that Abhidhā, Bhāvakatvaṁ and Bhojakatvaṁ should be the three excellences of good poetry.