Dvyasrayakavya

Author(s): Satyapal Narang
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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INTRODUCTION
The Dvyasrayakavya, a grammatico-poetic work aims at illustrating the grammatical treatise called Haimaśabdānuśāsana written by the poet Hemacandra himself. It appears that Hemacandra was inspired by the Bhațți-kāvya which illustrated a few grammatical rules as well as tenses in accordance with Paninis Astādhyāyi. Undoubtedly, in origin, such like poems might have aimed at accuracy and exactitude of teaching gramma ar through facile and accessible medium but, in culmination, they endeavored to demonstrate intellectuality. The Mahābhāşya of Patañjali has cited an example, which accumulates homo. gencous examples for the facility of teaching. The climax of this trend comes into vision with the boastful verse of Bhatti, “This poem can be understood only with the help of a commentary which is a delight to the scholars and due to my liking for intellectuals, I have killed unintelligent."2 Bhāmaha, a contemporary rhetorician has expressed a deep regret and unhappiness in answer to this boastful verse3.
1. Mahābhāsya on Pān. 1.1.57 पचः परस्मिन् पूर्वविधौ । स्तोष्याम्यहं पादिकमौववाहिं ततः श्वोभूते शातनी पातनी च ।। नेतारावगच्छत्तं धारणिं रावरिणं च तत: पश्चात् स्रस्यते ध्वंस्यते च ॥ 2. Bhattikāvya, XXII.34 न्याख्यागम्यमिदं काव्यमुत्सवः सुधियामलम् । हता दुर्मघसश्चास्मिन् विद्वत्प्रियतया मया ।। 3. Bhamaha's Kavyalankāra, I.20 काव्यान्यपि यदीमानि व्याख्यागम्यानि शास्त्रवत् । उत्सवः सुधियामेष अहो दुर्मेधसो हताः ।।