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________________ HEMACANDRA : AN ASSESSMENT 225 (Kavyanusasana, pp. 144-147) is most probably borrowed by Hemacandra from the Abhinavabharati on the seventh chapter-Bhavadhyaya of Natyasastra which is now almost lost). Kumarasvamin in his commentary called Ratnapana on Prataparudriya4 cites a portion from his passage with the introductory remark : 'Tad uktam acarya-Hemacandrena". This remark would make us believe that the portion cited, is Hemacandra's own. But since Hemacandra adopts the whole section on rasa from Abhinavabharati, it is more likely than not, that the passage on bhava too he has adopted from the same source. Following Bharata and Abhinavagupta, Hemacandra holds that the sattvikabhavas are of dual character. They partake of the nature of both : the vyabhicarins and the anubhavas. The sattvikabhavas are of two kinds : internal and external. The external sattvikabhavas like stambha (stupefaction), sveda (perspiration), etc., are bodily or physical attributes and are jada or acetana (inanimate) and therefore are called anubhavas. These external sattvikabhavas first suggest their corresponding internal sattvikabhavas but ultimately they suggest the mental states or emotions like rati(love), nirveda (world-weariness). etc.5 (c) Discussion as to the nature and number of gunas : In chapter IV of his Kavyanusasana Hemacandra briefly states in his vrtti that gunas are three (only) and not five or ten : "trayo na tu dasa panca va" He then discusses at great lengh the ten sabdagunas and arthagunas set forth in their works by Bharata, Dandin and Vamana. He incidentally refers to Mangala's view also. V. Raghavan, in his encyclopaedic work, Bhoja's Srrgaraprakasa, surveys Hemacandra's treatment of gunas amd remarks that Hemacandra must have borrowed this critical discussion from Rajasekhara's Kavyamimamsa which is now lost to us except for its first chapter. I have pointed out in my paper. "The Sources of Hemacandra's Kavyanusasana," how Hemacandra's method has been eclectic and he borrows from his illustrious predecessors in preparing his excellent text book on Sanskrit poetics. In the process he does a valuble service of preserving for us much significant material. Here, for instance, the unique discussion on gunas, which is quite a halimark in Sanskrit poetics, Hemacandra has preserved for us from Rajasekhara's original voluminous work Kavyamimamsa (now lost). Just as Hemacandra has borrowed freely great portions from Rajasekhara's chapters dealing with poetic conventions, plagiarism and vyutpatti (proficiency, scholarship-arising from a close study of the world, the various sastras the works of earlier poets and such other works as Ramayana, Mahabharata, etc.) even so this critical discussion he Stud.-29 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only
| SR No. | 001868 |
| Book Title | Studies in Jain Literature |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | V M Kulkarni |
| Publisher | Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Literature, & Story |
| File Size | 14 MB |