Yatindrasuri Abhinandan Granth

SR No.: 012074
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kalyanvijay Gani
Publisher: Saudharmbruhat Tapagacchiya Shwetambar Shree Sangh
Total Pages: 502
Language: Hindi
Classification: Smruti_Granth
File Size: 14 MB

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PRAKRIT
entering a new world. The language shows remarkable traits; the metres are different; and the presentation has a melodious music about it. Apabhramsa forms were gradually admitted into Prakrit compositions from the early centuries of the Christian era; Kāliḍās introduced Apabhramsa songs in his Vikramõrvasiyam. Every language has its favourite metres; Sanskrit has the ślōka, Prakrit has the gatha, and Apabhramsa, the dōha. Many dōhās are quoted by Hemacandra in his grammer. The Apabhramśa metres, with their rhymes and ghatta, have such a fascinating ring about them, that many authors used these metres in Prakrit and Sanskrit also.
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Caturmukha is one of the early Apabhramsa poets, but none of his works has come down to us. He has been praised for his choice of words; and perhaps he was responsible for popularising the paddhadiya metre. Of Svayambhu (8th C. A. D.) we know a good deal through his son Tribhuvana Svayambhu, who brought to completion his father's Paumacariu and Harivainśapurāṇa, huge epics covering the subject matter of the Rama legend and the Bharata episode. As a rule, Apabhramsa poet gives us a good picture of themselves. Svayambhu tells us that he was very slender and had scattered teeth. His son speaks about him thus: "The mad elephant of Apabhramsa wanders about at will only so long as the restraining hook of the grammer of Svayambhu does not fall. Victorious be the lion Svayambhu with his long tusks of good words, terrible to look at on account of his claws, his metres and figures of speech, and with ample mane, his grammer..
The most important Apabhramsa poet, whose three worksMahāpurāņu, Jasaharacariu and Nayakumaracariu-have been well edited and about whom we know a great deal, is Puspadanța, of the mid 10C. He wandered, forlorn, to Manyakheta, where ruled Krsnarāja 111 of the Rastrakuta dynasty; these under the patronage of minister Bharata, his poetic genius fruitfully flowered. He wrote an Apabhramsa, his language is brisk and fluid; metres are varied,; descriptions are elegant, the flow of sentiment is well regulated, and the poetic embellishments are profusely used.