Sambodhi 2003 Vol 26

SR No.: 520776
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 184
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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Vol. XXVI, 2003
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has composed another Vrtti known as the "Kāvyakalpalatā- Makarandavịtti", which is briefly known as the “Makarandavstti".
In the succinct Introduction Dr. Betai discusses the following points: -
(i) Work (ii) authors (iii) “Parimala-Vịtti”, (iv) Scholarship of Amaracandra (v) "Makarandravstti” of Subhavijayagani, (vi) Kāvyaśikṣā of Vinayacandrasuri (13th century A. D.); (vii) Kāvyakalpalatāviveka (authorship unknown) (viii) Kāvyakalpalatā kawi śikṣā (ix) Kavikalpalatā of Devesvara. The Parimalavrtti (Svopajñā. Parimalatīkā) is given as Appendix I in this edition (pp. 233 ff).
The Appendix II gives The Karikā-kramah (pp. 147 ff) in the alphabetical order.
The work under consideration has four pratānas and they are divided into various stabakas. (Vide introduction pp. 8 ff for information in brief).
The book is printed nicely, but is printed in small type. It is wished that the sūtras and the commentary should have been printed in different types, as is the general practice. One comes across some misprints and incomplete references during the course of the perusal. There are some quotations in the M/A language and it is wished that the Sanskrit chāyā of such quotations should have been given either in footnotes or in a separate appendix, as is done by the late Vamanacharya Ramabhatta Jhalakikar in his commentary "Bālabodhini" on Mammata's Kāvyaprakāśa (BOR! edition, Poona, 1950; edited by R. D. Karmarkar, pp. e.g. 27, 28,29, 244 etc).
It is a pleasure to welcome this work, when the west is concerned and is making arrangements for training in creative writing (Vide Donald Hall, The Making of a Poet, Span, August, 1992, pp. 25ff). The author and the publisher deserve our hearty congratulations for publishing this work, which adds to the contribution of Jainas to the Sanskrit Literature of Gujarat and to the literature in Poetics. We look forward for many more works from the pen of the editor in the years to come. It is also hoped that this work will find its place in the libraries of Indological Institutes, Universities and Colleges,
S. G. Kantawala