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________________ KALPALATAVIVEKA : A STUDY The publication of the Kalpalataviveka, a hitherto unpublished work on Sanskrit poetics, is a valuable addition to the existing literature on Sanskrit poetics. It is an Addendum to the Pallava which is a commentary on the Kalpalata. The author of the Kalpalata and Pallava, both of which are irretrievably lost, is, as first pointed out by Pt. Dalsukh Malvania, Ambaprasada, the Chief- minister of Siddharaja Jayasimha (1094-1143 A. D.). It has not so far been known whether the same author wrote this book or it is somebody else. His expressed aim is to explain whatever was passed over by the Pallava. But he has gone beyond this declared aim and has incorporated in his Addendum detailed portions dealing with Nrtta-natya, Dhvani, Prastara, 33 Bhavas, and the famous Rasa-sutra of Bharata from the standard works which together take about 160 printed pages, i.e. one half of the Addendum. The editors deserve to be congratulated on critically presenting the text based on three MSS. and adding useful Indexes at the end. Prof. Vora's Introduction, very elaborate, is highly useful in understanding and appreciating the elliptical passages in the text. His was, indeed, a very arduous task to trace the sources; for the text in many places gives only pratikas of Sanskrit karikas, Sanskrit and Prakrit illustrative verses, and of the gloss on them. Sometimes it gives synonyms or adds remarks by way of explanations or criticism. Some of these pratikas are not the words with which the karikas or the illustrative verses open. Naturally, Prof. Vora's task of tracing the sources became all the more difficult. It must be said to his credit that he has, to a great extent, accomplished his task with admirable success. Besides tracing the sources in the course of the topicwise survey of the contents of the four chapters on Dosa, Guna, sabdalamkara and arthalamkara he has critically and ably discussed the various topics of the authorship of the Kalpalata, its Age, the title of the work, the interrelation between the Kalpalata and the Kalpalataviveka, the scope of the Kalpalata, the Pallava and the Kalpalataviveka, the structure of the Kalpalata, the authorship of the Kalpalataviveka, the contribution and usefulness of the Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
| 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 |