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Introduction
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The second remark of Dr. S. K. De is that the Kāvyānuşāsana is merely a Sikshā grantha.
I wonder how anybody who has even cursorily gone through the Kávyānusāsana with its Al. C. and Viveka can form such a view of the work. It, no doubt, includes the topic of Kavişikshā as it includes many other topics also. But that should not make one regard it as merely a Sikshā grantha and classify it as such, as Dr. De has done. In fact the Kávyānuşāsana is a work which should take its place with the Kāvyaprakāşa and the Sāhityadarpaņa as treating the subject of Samsksta poetics in all its aspects..
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CHRONOLOGY OF HEMACHANDRA’S WORKS
As we have seen, Hemachandra, has, himself, indicated the order in which he wrote his works, in the works themselves. He, has, however, no where given exact dates for any of his works; nor we are able to ascertain them from any independent direct source. Dr. Bühler has attempted to assign approximate dates to these works which are, on the whole, correct.
Dr. Bühler, from the reference in the Prasasti at the end of the S. H. to a pilgrimage, concludes 'that the grammar should have been finished after this time '. He puts the composition of the grammar between the return from Mālava and the end of the pilgrimage - for which he assigns a period of two or three years. The return from Mālava is put by Dr. Bühler in the year V. S. 1194-A. D. 1138 and so he comes to the conclusion that the “Grammar must have been ready, at
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