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________________ DISCOVERY THROUGH RESTORATION (Discovery of hitherto unknown works through restoration of corrupt passages on Sanskrit Poetics) I began my work on the emendation of the texts way back in 1960. It was a lucky accident, I should think. Professor R. C. Parikh, Director, B. J. Institute of learning and Research, Ahmedabad gave me a copy of his latest publicationhis edition of Kavyaprakasa, the speciality of which was that, it contained the hitherto unpublished Samketa commentary of Somesvara Bhatta. He also asked me whether I would write a review of it. I glanced through it but soon enough I had to prepare myself for a long spell of hard work. The Samketa commentary contained a number of question marks : much of its text was corrupt. I thought that I should take it on myself to set the passages right. But how ? This question did not frighten me. I thought out a plan : I could get the original texts from where the writer of the Samketa commentary could possibly have drawn his material by looking up the books on the topics to which the passages in the Samketa referred-these books comprised : Bharata's Natyasastra, Abhinavgupta's commentary on it Natyavedavivrti, better known as Abhinavabharati, Dhanamjaya's Dasarupaka with Dhanika's commentary Avaloka, on it, Vamana's Kavyalamkarasutrani, Rudrata's Kavyalamkara with Namisadhu's Tippana on it, Anandavardhana's Dhvanyaloka with Abhinavagupta's Locana commentary on it, Rajasekhara's Kavyamimamsa, Mukulabhatta's Abhidhavsttimatrka, Mahimabhatta's Vyaktiviveka and Ruyyaka's Alamkarasarvasva with Jayaratha's commentary called Vimarsini. So, began a big hunt and the subsequent comparative study of the text in the Samketa and the original versions that were located in some of the source books mentioned above. Scores and scores of passages, small and large were common between the Samketa commentary on the one hand and the above source works on the other. The comparative tables facilitated the task of restoring the corrupt 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 |