Kavyanushasana Critical Study

SR No.: 001713
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 558
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Kavya
File Size: 10 MB

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the poet's adeptness in the different arts, sciences and human nature, the Viveka commentary closes the discussion by remarking that other sciences not included here may suitably be illustrated. This shows that the list of the arts and sciences beneficial for the poetic creation was never final as these arts, and sciences grew in volume and number with the growth of civilisation.13
The third factor which makes for poetic culture is described as proficiency in the poems of master poets, 'Kāvyeṣu nipunata.' This phrase in the Sutra clarifies that it is not only necessary for a budding poet to cultivate a general acquaintance with the great works of literature composed upto his time, but it is also imperative that he should know the essence of these masterpieces. In other words, Hemachandra advises the apprentice to feel the throb of the great ancient poetic tradition both from the point of view of creative technique as well as the sublime height of genius revealed therein. In this connection, the concluding line of the gloss on this Sutra is very significant. Winding up the discussion regarding the importance of culture which consists in the apprentice's proficiency in the worldly subjects as also human nature, in the differents scientific works as well as in the literary masterpieces, Hemachandra aptly remarks in the last sentence of the gloss that it is undoubtely true that a poet, whose in-born. creative genius is brightened and sharpened by such proficiency in the different arts, sciences and human nature invariably succeeds in composing excellent poetry without transgressing the bounds of the world, the human nature or the arts and the sciences or the great poetic tradition. Those students of Sanskrit poetics who are familiar with the concept of 'Aucitya' or propriety in poetics will readily realise the purport of Hemachandra's words in लोकादिनिपुणतासंस्कृतप्रति भो हि तदनतिक्रमेण
guiana (K. A. S. 1. 8 ff) supported by a line quoted from Bhamaha (V. 4) which means all arts and sciences help poetry: "There is no word, no object, no smart adage or an art which
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