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Introduction
cccxxy be called a Muktaka, if two verses á Samdānitaka, if three a Visesaka, and if four a Kalā paka. According to the twelfth sūtra a collection of five to fourteen verses is to be called a Kulaka. According to the thirteenth and the last sūtra any collection of good verses - one's own or of other people-is called Kosa. As an example of Muktaka, the Al. C. mentions the well known muktakas of Amaru. As an example of Kosa is mentioned the Saptaşataka (of Hāla), of Samghāta the Vịndāvana and the Meghadūta, of Samhitā the Yadu. vamşa and the Dilīpavamsa.
Thus the whole subject matter of Samskrta poetics in all its aspects is treated in the treatise-the Kāvyānuşāsana. Not only that, but Hemachandra has tried to be up-to-date in his authorities. There is only one other work which can bear comparison with the Kávyānuşāsana in this matter and that is the Sāhityadarpaşa of Vişvanátha who wrote his work, in the opinion of Mr. Kane, between 1380 A. C. to 1384 A. C. (Introduction the S. D. p. CXXIII ) more than two hundred years after Hemachandra wrote his work.
According to Mr. Kane ( in the introduction to the S. D. p. c. XIV ) Hemachandra has been quoted by Kumāraswāmin in his commentary named the Ratnāpana on the Pratāparudrayaşobhüshaņa of Vidyānātha on pp. 46-47-224-233-259-279-299 of that work (published in the B. S. S.).
Here, I may refer to two remarks of Dr. S. K. De about the Kāvyānuşāsana of Hemachandra. Dr. De says " As a text book it (i.e. the Kāvyānuşāsana ) hardly supercedes the Kávyaprakāşa” (History of Samskrta Poetics Vol. I p. 203). Now if it were a
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