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Language and style
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Besides the idiomatic language and wonderful diction in the Dvyāśrayakāvya, Hemacandra does not lack in the rhetorical defects viz., harsh, disused and doubtful words and abnormal syntax and sentences.
In conclusion, Hemacandra may be evaluated as a mediocre poet who could write neither suggestive nor aesthetic poetry due to his exemplary purpose. He is concious of the sound and sense of poetry but could not express it in its colour due to his confined object. He is not a follower of a particular style of expression viz., Vaidarbhi or Gaudi etc. We do not find the explicit, clear, even, sweet and soft characteristics of poetry in the Dvyāśrayakāvya which are essential for the vaidarbhi style of expression.
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