The document defines the Riti school of Indian literary theory. It states that Riti means style or method. The founder of the Riti school was Vamana, who introduced the idea of two types of beauty in literature - natural beauty (sobha) and artificial beauty caused by rhetorical devices (alamkaras). Vamana conceived of two aspects of Riti - Sabda Riti related to the words used, and Artha Riti related to the meaning. Riti denotes the soul of a literary work and defies being perceived or analyzed like Gati, instead with Riti the parts are lost in the unified whole, which represents beauty. The English translation of Riti is rhythm rather than style.

1. Topic : Define the Riti school.
Name : Gohel Daya b.
Paper no : 7 ( Literary theory & criticism)
Roll no :3
Sem :2
Submitted to : Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university.
Department of English.
Email id : dayagohel47@gmail.com

2. Introduction
In the Indian literary theory carry out a
sustained analysis of how meaning is
constituted in the language ,forms and
devices.
Beauty is assumed to consist in
alamkaratva the craft or rethetaric of
composion.

3. Riti :-
 Riti means style , method.
 Vamana’s kavyalanara sutra rises much
above the poetic , and justly claim to be regarded
as the first attempt at evolving a philosophy of
literary aesthetic. The most of his successors he
presented his finding in the form of sutras
following the tradition of the darsana.

4. The famous dictum:
Kavya grahya malankaaraat ;
Saundarya malankaarah,
A kavay becomes agreeable on
account of malankaarah and malankaarah
means beauty. At the very outset vamana
struck sharp distinction between
malankaarah as beauty and malankaarah
as a figure of speech, his views were at
variance with those of this predecessors.

5.  vamana introduced the idea two kind
of beauty- the natural and the artificial
beauty caused by the alankaras ,
vamana denoted natural beauty as
sobha and its heightened form as
Saundarya.
 Sobha ,kanti ,deepti , madhurya
,sukumarata etc.

6.  The two bodies of the kavya
vamana conceived of two Riti:
(1)Sabda riti
(2)Artha riti
 They are reflection of the vital
principal the soul of the kavya.

7. The concept
Riti is vamanas greatest contribution to
literary theory. He coined the term Riti to denote
the soul of a kavya.Riti to its apparent synonym
Gati is significant. Gati indicates a movement
which can be perceived analyzed and explained
Riti on the contrary defies. In Riti the parts are not
discernible they are lost in the whole which in
unity. This form is beauty or sobha for the
lovability of the kavya.

8.  It may be noted her that the
English of Riti is rhythm and not
style as most critic belived
Rhythm is derived from the Greek
root Rheo equivalent to Riti
etymologically and semantically.