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Kavyanus asana
discrimination and definiteness and mentioned the names of authors where he thought that particular contributions were theirs.
A careful study of the S.H. and all the commentaries on it written by the author himself will bear out these remarks. A similar study of the Kavyānuṣāsana confirms them.
The Kāvyānuṣāsana consists of 208 sūtras divided into eight Adhyayas. The first adhyaya contains 25, the second 59, the third 10, the fourth 9, the fifth 9, the sixth 31, the seventh 52 and the eighth 13 sutras respectively. In these 208 sutras, so to say, is concentrated the whole subject of Samskṛta Poetics in all its aspects. This Kavyānuṣāsana of 208 sūtras is, as the author himself says, 'extended (pratanyate)' in the commentary which is known by the name Alamkarachūdāmaņi. The name of the Alamkārachūdamani is mentioned in the colophons at the end of all the adhyayas, but nowhere in the body of the text. This indicates that naming the commentary might have been a later idea.
There is, as we have seen, another commentary which the author, in its first introductory verse calls the Viveka of the Kavyanuṣāsana ". This, again, indicates that the author looks upon not only the sūtras but the vṛtti (commentary) also as Kāvyānuṣāsana. In the vṛtti, the Kavyānuṣāsana is said to be extended (pratanyate)' while here, the Viveka is said to be extended in detail (pra-vi-tanyte).' This is also clear from the first line of the introductory verse where the purpose of writing the Viveka is
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× Pandit Bechardas's article on the S- H. previously referred to will be found very useful in such a study.
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