Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
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

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226 STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE must have borrowed from Rajasekhara. This conjecture is strongly supported by the way Hemacandra presents the subject and the style and diction he uses which is unmistakably Rajasekhara's. The critical survey of gunas incorporated by Hemacandra in his Viveka commentary is also remarkable for the reference to the two 'strange' or peculiar views : (i) ओजः प्रसाद-मधुरिमाणः साम्यमौदार्यं च पञ्चेत्यपरे / तथा हि यददर्शितविच्छेदं पठतामोजः, विच्छिद्य पदानि पठतां प्रसादः, आरोहावरोहतरङ्गिणि पाठे माधुर्यम्, ससौष्ठवमेव स्थानं पठतामौदार्यम्, अनुच्चनीचं पठतां साम्यमिति / तदिदमलीकं कल्पनातन्त्रम् / यद्विषयविभागेन पाठनियमः स कथं गुणनिमित्तमिति / (ii) छन्दोविशेषनिवेश्या गुणसंपत्तिरिति केचित् तथा हि स्रग्धरादिष्वोज... / इन्द्रवज्रोपेन्द्रवज्रादिषु प्रसादः....मन्दाक्रान्तादिषु माधुर्यं...शार्दूलादिषु समता...विषमवृत्तेष्वौदार्य...इन्द्रवज्रादिष्वप्रसादः मन्दाक्रान्तादिष्वमाधुर्यं...शार्दूलादिष्वसाम्यं...।' -Viveka pp. 287-288 These views are not met with in any of the extant works on poetics by Hemacandra's predecessors. From among his successors Manikyacandra, in his commentary Samketa on Kavyaprakasa (pp. 300-301; Mysore edn; 1922) has nearly reproduced the above text and Bhatta Somesvara in his Sanketa commentary on Kavyaprakasa Jodhpur edn. 1959, p. 208) indifferently reproduces the following lines : __ छन्दोविशेषविशेष्या गुणसंपत्तिरिति केचित् / तथा हि स्रग्धरादिष्वोजः इन्द्रवज्रादिषु समता विषमवृत्तेष्वौदार्य, तच्च सव्यभिचारम् / / Incidentally, it may be pointed out that Bharata lays down rules as to the use of particular metres in particular rasas and gives a general rule : शेषाणामर्थयोगेन छन्दः कार्य प्रयोक्तृभिः // -NS XVI W 114-119 These rules of Bharata recognise the intimate interrelation between metres and rasas. Abhinavagupta in his commentary on NS Ch. XIV, (pp. 24546) quotes the view of one Katyayana : यथोक्तं कात्यायनेन वीरस्य भुजदण्डानां वर्णने स्रग्धरा भवेत् / नायिकावर्णने कार्यं वसन्ततिलकादिकम् / / शार्दूललीला प्राच्येषु मन्दाक्रान्ता च दक्षिणे // इत्यादि In the light of Bharata's rules and Abhinavagupta's commentary there is scope to re-examine whether the second view 'छन्दोविशेषनिवेश्या गुणसंपत्ति:' has some merit. (d) Hemacandra's freely borrowing passages and whole sections from the