Tulsi Prajna 1997 07

SR No.: 524592
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 166
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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TULSI-PRAJNA
follows:
Je Lankāgirimehalāhim khalida sambhoakhiņñorai
Phārapphulla phapävalikavalano patta dariddattanam / Te enbiñ malaānila vira biņiņisasa sampakkino Jādā jhatti sisuttane vi bahalā tāruņņapuņņā via II
(1-19) This verse being impersonal in both subject and diction is capable of having universal appeal. So Rājasekhara (through the hero of the play) praises Vicakşānā as 'kavicūdāmanittane thidā exã'. This praise is bestowed on her because in respect of subject-maiter and diction her composition is not cut off from the general tradition of nature poetry--which is the content here both varying to describe the vernal beauty in their own way, whereas the jester's verse is cut off because of its expressing an idiosyncracy.
Literature (vānmaya) and Life (loka) are the constituents of tradition. Literature may have two main divisions one mainly for knowledge (Šāstra) and the other for pleasure (kävya). In its entirety it contains the cumulative outcome of human thinkings and experiences. It is the national and social heritage, continuation of the past in the present. Life as lived by the masses too is a continuous flow from immemorable ancestory. It expressess itself in the attires and the ornaments, in general conduct and behaviour in speech, song and dance and in festivities and merry-makings.
In Kāvyamjmāmsā Rājasekhara says that as one cannot see the objects in darkness without a lamp, so too a poet cannot see the theme of poetry without erudition. So before entering into the field of poetry, an aspirant should cultivate the traditional lores (sästra). This has been said to consist of the four Vedas - Rk, Yajuh. Sāma and Atharvāna; the four Upavedas-Itihasa Dhanurveda, Gādharva and Ayurveda; the six Vedāngas-Sikşā, Kalpa, Vyakaraña, Nirukta. Chandoviciti and Jyotisa and the Puranas, Anvikşiki, Mimāṁsā and Smrtitantra. Rajasekhara has stated both the Purānas and the Smstis as eighteen each. Further, he has divided Anvīksiki as Purvapakşa and Uttarapaksa. The former consists of the Jaina, the Bauddha and the Lokāyata and the latter of the Sāňkhya, the Nyāya and the Vaiseșika.
To these traditionally accepted lores Rājasekhara is in favour of making some additions. According to him the Rhetorics (Alarkāra Sástra) should constitute the seventh Vedenga because along with the other Vedāngas, this too contributed to the comprehensive of the Vedas. Those who propound that there are only fourteen branches of learning (Vidyāsthānas-the four Vedas, the six Vedangas and Purāda, Aavikņiks, Mimāmsă and Smrtita atra) are advised by Raja