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Chapter XVI Prakrit Verses In Visvanātha's Sāhitya-Darpana!
"In the galaxy of Sanskrit rhetoricians Visvanātha is a star of the second magnitude only. Beside the brilliance of Anandavardhana, Mammața and Jagannātha his light appears dim....... He is, however more or less a compiler and not an original writer.""
"The Sahityadarpana was composed at some time between 1300 A. D. and 1384 A. D."
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Visvanātha cites twenty-seven Prakrit verses in his Sahityadarpanı, som his own and some he torrows from his predecessors.
1)
Attà ettha nimajjai
(p. 4) अत्ता एत्थ णुमज्जइ एत्थ अहं दिअसरं पुलोएसु/पलोएहि। मा पहिअ रत्ति-अंधअ सेज्जाए मह णुमज्जिहिसि ॥ . (श्वश्रूरत्र निषीदति अत्राहं दिवसकं प्रलोकस्व । मा पथिक रात्र्यन्धक शय्यायामावयोनिषत्स्यसि ॥)
-GS VII. 67 Ua nicchalanippamda... ...
(p. 15) उअ णिच्चल-णिप्पंदा/णिप्फंदा भिसिणी-पत्तम्मि रेहइ बलाआ। णिम्मल-मरगअ-भाअण-परिटुिआ संखसुत्ति व्व ॥ (पश्य निश्चल-निष्पन्दा बिसिनी-पत्रे राजते बलाका । निर्मल-मरकत-भाजन-परिस्थिता शङ्खशुक्तिरिव ॥)
-GS I. 4
2)
1) The Sahityadarpana of Visvanātha (Pariechedas I-X) And, History of Alankara
Literature by P. V, Kane, Second edition, 1923, Bombay. 2) The Sahityadarpana of Visvanatha, with...The History of Sanskrit Poetics by P.V.
Kane, Bombay, third edn. 1951 (pp 291-292). 3) Ibid, p. 287.
