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XI. GRAMMATICAL STUDY
(Arrangement and technique)
Hemacandra wrote a new grafomar named Haimaśabdānuśāsana and in order to illustrate it, he wrote a historical Mabākāvya called the Dvyāśrayakāvja. Before Hemacandia, Bhațți had illustrated only a few Adhikāras of Pāṇini's Aştādhyāyī as well as all the tenses in his Tiñania-kāņda. The Rāvaņārjunīya set a new tradition to illustrate all the Adhikaraṇas of the grammar in the same order although he could pot completely fulfil it. On the other band Halāyudha in his Kavirahasya collected all the similar conjugational forms.
Hemacandra undertook a new enterprise to write his poem which comprised not only the complete examples of his grammar but many times quoted the controversial opinions of other scholars on grammar as well through examples. Sūtras injecting prohibition (Pratiședha) and indicated by negation (Nañ-compound) were neither illustrated in the Bhatți-kāvya nor in the Rāvaņājuniya. But almost all such examples are given by Hemacandra. His novelty in illustrations lies in the fact that manytimes he gives even counter examples (Pratyudāharaña) which are totally ignored in other poems. Some of the sūtras which require a detailed explanation and a variety of examples are also given by Hemacandra.
Thus Hemacandra tried to acquire the culmination in grammatical poems in illustrations and he was successful in his object. Here is a study of his various salient characteristics which are found in his illustrations.
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