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________________ JAIN AESTHETIC CONCEPTS 337 Dasarupakadhyaya from Abhinavabharati. He also freely incorporates passages after passages from his authorities as shown in my paper "The Sources of Hemacandra's Kavyanusasana."20 If the sections and explanations from Abhinavabharati were not preserved intact by incorporating them in his Kavyanusasana, it would have been next to impossible to restore the corrupt text of Abhinavabharati on the key rasasutra. Next to the Rasadhyaya of Natyasastra, the Bhavadhyaya is all important. The commentary Abhinavabharati on it has been lost. Every student of Sanskrit poetics and aesthetics feels very much the loss of this portion. As late as 1969 A. D. Dr. J. L. Masson and Prof. M. V. Patwardhan observe in their recent work santarasa and Abhinavagupta's Philosophy of Aesthetics "All of the seventh chapter of the Abhinavabharati but the very beginning has been lost, which is a great misfortune, since Abhinava refers to it frequently. It must have been a large and important section of the A. Bh." (p. 120 f.n.2). In my paper "Abhinavabharati CH.VII Recovered ?" I have shown decisively how the portion of the Kalpalataviveka from p. 286, line 22 to p. 303, line 3, dealing with the thirty-three vyabhicaribhavas of the Natyasastra is a straight quotation of the major portion of the original Abhinavabharati on the Bhavadhyaya21. Kalpalataviveka of Ambaprasada, Natyadarpana of Ramacandra and Gunacandra and Kavyanusasana of Hemacandra have been of great use in recovering the original readings of Abhinavabharati and Locana as well. Again, Hemacandra's treatment of gunas is noteworthy : "On gunas Hemacandra is a follower of Anandavardhana and he draws upon Mammata and probably on Rajasekhara also....As regards the three gunas, Hemacandra considers that. madhurya is of the highest degree in vipralambha, a little less in karuna and still less in santa... This is one of the views recorded later by Jagannatha." It is noteworthy for "his reference of strange views on gunas." One view holds that ojas, prasada, madhurya, samya and audarya are the five gunas (in the sense of the pathadharmas). The other view is these five gunas belong to certain metres." Hemacandra criticises both. What is remarkable is his reference to strange views on gunas which are not mentioned elsewhere by any alamkarika. Hemacandra's Kavanusasana and Ambaprasada's Kalpalataviveka shed abundant light on the vexed problem whether Gnoli's claim that his publication, Udbhata's commentary on the Kavyalamkara of Bhamaha22, really represents some fragments of the "lost" Bhamahavivarana. These two texts contain passages which support Gnoli's identification. Again, Kalpalataviveka lucidly explains the six verses of Bhamaha (Kavyalamkara V. 5-10) which have baffled modern scholars, Pandits and commentators alike. In a paper "Kalpalataviveka on Bhamaha's Kavyalamkara Stud.-43 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 |