The Kavyasangraha is an anthology of chiefly minor Sanskrit poems belonging to variety of genres, such as lyrical poems of love. Sandesakavya, hymns, devotional poems, didactic poems, philosophical poems, etc. the anthology comprises a representative collection of such poems of each genre. One therefore finds in it Govardhana’s Aryasaptasafi, Sankaracarya’s Anandalahari, Atmabodha and Gangastaka, Srirupagosvamin’s Uddhava-sandesa, Bhartrhari’s three centuries etc. etc. It presents a colourful spectrum of Sanskrit literature so as to include the the Srutabodha an easy manual of prosody ascribed to Kalidasa, Dharmadasa’s Vidagdha-mukhamandana, a book of intelligent riddles, two treatises on poetics, Jayadeva’s Ratimanjari and Bhanudatta’s Rasamanjari. The anthology compiled by Pandit Jibananda Vidyasagar of Calcutta, the illustrious commentator and publisher of innumberable Sanskrit works in late nineteenth century. He not only complied the anthology put also wrote a brief lucid commentary on each of the work contained in it. The anthology, though out of print for several decades, still has relevance to the present generation of lovers of Sanskrit.
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