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Sutras of his grammar, the
Sabdanusasanam : the Sanskrita Dvyasraya Kavya is written to illustrate the rules contained in the first seven Adhyayas of his grammar which deal with Sanskrita; the other, Prakrita Dvyasaraya Kavya ( Kumarpala Charitam performs a similar function with reference to his last Adhyaya which deals with Prakrita and other middle Indo-Aryan languages. This alliance of poetry and grammar, which is a unique feature of Sanskrita Literature, enlists poetic imagination into the service of the formal aspect of language. It brings the pleasure of poetry to aid and enliven the study of grammar. There exists, in Sanskrita Literature, examples of a different kind of alliance too, namely that alliance of poetry and grammar wherein grammatical categories and terms exploited to aid poetic imagination, to embellish diction and even to suggest an emotion. For instance take this verse in which the neutre gender of the word (mind has been turned to good account in suggesting the helpless state of a pining lover:
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नपुंसकमिति ज्ञात्वा प्रियायै प्रेषितं मनः । तत् तु तत्रैव रमते, वयं पाणिनिना हताः ॥
Such use of grammatical categories is not
