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Next, the author illustrates Vākyārthaśūnyavịttābhyasa in verse No. 59. Here the poet has arranged words so as to make a line of a certain number of syllables as per the measurement involved in writing the metre, but he has not paid any attention to the sense. This, therefore, serves the purpose of a beginner. Much in the same way Padaparāvșttyabhyāsa (changing or substitution of the different words of a master poet's verse without changing either (1) the sense or (2) the metre). The last verse No. 60 of this section, naturally, deals with this poetic exercise. Here the apprentice is first given the opening verse of Kalidasa's well-known epic, the Raghuvamsam (1. 1): Vāgarthāviva etc. and then he is asked to practice making a new verse by substituting synonyms of the key words of the verse without altering the sense and the metre. The resulting verse is also numbered 60.
This exercise has been taken over by Hemachandra from the Kavikanthābharaṇa (1. 21) of the Kashmirian polymath kşemendra. He prescribes the exercise for the second type of student (1. 14 ff) who can be trained with difficulty. The Mothers of Poetry
Finally, before closing the discussion on the subject of Kavyahetu, Hemachandra quotes a couplet from the Kavyamimāṁsā of Rājasekhara (Chapter X) to the effect that "Health, genius, application, devotion, discourses by the learned, varied knowledge, a vivacious memory and freedom from dejection - these eight are the mothers of poetry". Rajasekhara quotes this to reinforce his statement in the first paragraph of Chapter X of his Kävyamimāṁsā that apart from the knowledge of the sciences and arts and human nature, a poet's own natural and cultural endowments also count in the birth of a poem. So he is convinced that the company of a poet who is a source of support for good people, tidings of the country, charming words and quotations from the learned men, journey around different places, meetings and discussions with learned people and a close study of the compositions
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| SR No. | 001713 |
| Book Title | Kavyanushasana Critical Study |
| 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 |