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CCCII
Kavyanusasana
The Viveka was evidently composed after the Chhandonuṣāsana, as it refers to it. The general description of the work, we have already given in the pages I-X of this introduction. Its subject-matter will be critically discussed in a separate section.
The Chhandonuṣāsana was composed after the Kavyanuṣāsana, as we learn from its first verse; but before the Viveka on the Kavyanuṣāsana, as we just now saw. Hemachandra says in the first verse "I, who have completed Sabda - Kavya - Anuṣāsanas, after contemplating the speech of Arhat, will speak of the Anuṣāsana of the Chhandas (metres) useful to poetry". In the commentary, the identity of the authorship of the Sabdanuṣāsana, the Kāvyānuṣāsana and the Chhandonuṣāsana is reiterated.
This work consists of about 763 sūtras divided into eight Adhyāyas.* As usual, the commentary is lucid and interesting. The information that it gives on the Prākṛata and especially the Apabhramṣa metres is invaluable, and is likely to throw much light on the
The first Adhyaya which consists of 16 sutras is called the Sanjadhyaya, because ft explains the technical words and signs used in the work. The second Adhyaya consists of 415 sūtras and is called the Samavṛitavyavarpina (because it describes metres of uniform lines). The third Adhyaya consists of 73 sutras and describes arddhasama vittas, vishama vṛttas and matra chhandas. The fourth Adhyaya consists of 91 sūtras and describes Arya, Galitaka, Khanjaka, and Sirshaka metres. The fifth Adhyaya consists of 49 sutras and discusses Utsäha and other metres. The sixth Adhyaya consists of 29 sūtras and describes Shatpadi, Chatushpadī etc. The seventh consists of 73 sutras and describes Dvipadī; the eighth consists of 17 sutras and describes scansion.
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