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Dvyāśrayakāvya Navanidhi, the pine treasures which are enumerated as Mahāpadma, Padma, Sankha, Makara, Kacchapa, Mukunda, Kunda, Nīla and Carca (1. 195)".
RHETORICS: Hemacandra himself wrote Kāvyānuśāsana, a treatise of Sanskrit Literary criticism (Supra, ch. II). In the Dvyāśrayakāvya, rhetorical terms occur frequently. He has written a variety of figures of speech and multifarious similes (Infra). Some of the heroines like Māninī (I. 31), Mugdhā (I. 126), Khanitā (Ku. IV. 14-15; II. 13, 24) etc. are specified in the poem. A cunning hero (Satha Nāyaka) has also been referred to (II. 18).
EPICS AND PURĀNAS: Hemcandra has frequently referred to the mythological allusions of the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāņas. In the ilustrations of the secondary suffixes, he has given long lists of mythological and historical kings and sages (1. 128, 146; V. 104; IX. 45; XIV. 42 etc). Some of the Puranic concepts like fourteen Bhuvanas occur in the Dvyāśrayakāvya. The characters of the Rāmāyaṇa (1.32;VI. 89; VIII. 9, 100 etc.) and the Māhābhārata (I. 161: II. 65; IV. 7; V. 4; VIII. 20; XI. 45 etc.) are frequently found in the poem.
1. Cf. Megbadūta, Uttaramegha, 20
द्वारोपान्ते लिखितवपुषो शङ्खपद्मौ च दष्ट्वा । Here Mallinātha comments :
शङ्खपमा नाम निधिविशेषौ । M.R. Kale in his notes (p. 135) has quoted a verse as :
महापद्मश्च पद्मश्च शङ्खो मकरकच्छपौ।
मुकुन्दकुन्दनीलाश्च खर्वश्च निधयो नव ।। Cf. Abhidhānacintāmaņi of Hemacandra, Verse 193
महापद्मश्च पद्मश्च शङ्खो मकरकच्छपी। मुकुन्दकुन्दनीलाश्च चर्चाश्च निधयो नव ।।
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