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Dvyāśrayakāvya
forcible and expeditious language in the Dvyāśrayakāvya. Sometimes difficult, harsh, technical and obsolete diction is used in these descriptions which is harmonious with the spirit of his object. Galloping of the horses; march of the pedestrians and chariots2; clanging of arms and blare of the trumpets and other instruments1 are the objects of the description in the battlefield. Such like descriptions are found in the Kumarapalacarita also.5
SENTIMENTS
Undoubtedly Hemacandra is a past-master in the observation of human feelings and has an amazing command over words but the use of the exemplary words is a great hindrance in the befitting expression of sentiments. Still he expresses a variety of sentiments as required in the conventional characteristics of a Mahākāvya.
(i) HEROIC (VIRA): In the Dvyāśrayakāvya, heroic sentiment is dominant and is expressed with a force and speed in the language. Difficult, harsh and compound vocabulary appears to be adequately befitting to his heroic sentiment. Heroic verses can be observed scatteringly throughout the DvyāśrayakāvyaR.
1. Dv. VIII. 121-122; XII. 72-74; XVIII. 47-54 etc.
2. Dv. V. 25; VII. 132.
3. ibid., VI. 59, 76, 89 etc.
4. ibid, V. 79; XVIII. 40.
5. Kumārapālacarita, VI. 42 ff.
6. Dv. I. 200
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Likewise VIII. 33, 34, 93, 94, 112-113, 120-22; XII.28, 47, 62; XIV.25 XVIII. 43, 63-67 etc.
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