Dvyasrayakavya

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

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But Sanskrit poetry continued flourishing in the atmosphere of intellectual rivalry and gave birth to various tendencies of tedious poetry. These intellectual faculties not only influenced the subsequent writings of ladia but also inspired the poetry of the Far East. According to Hookaas "56% of the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa is influenced by the exemplary expressions of the Bhatti-kāvya."1 Bhūbhațța, a Kashmirian poet (Xth cent. A.D.) wrote a poem Rāvaņārjunīya on the same pattern. He strove to illustrate the grammatical rules in toto but could not fully accomplish his object. Halāyudha, a lexicographer collected the bomomorphous, homophonic and homonymous roots of various classes (gaņas) and wrote the grammatical poem Kavirahasya (Beginning of Xth cent. A. D.).
Ācārya Hemacandra, a distinguished Jain monk, a socioreligious reformer, a politician and an extrarodinary scholar wrote a new grammar called Siddhahaimaśabdānuśāsana ad carrying on the grammatical illustrative tendency of his predecessors Wrote a historico-grammatical poem the Dvyāśrayakāvya. The poem is the climax of the illustratlve tendency; important historical document of the Caulukyas of Gujarat and an unexplored work for the cultural history of Gujarat in twelfth cent. A. D. The Prakrit part of the work viz. Kumāra pälacarita is equally important for its cultural value. No serious research in the various aspects of the Dvyāśrayakāvya has been made except that it has been utilized for historical purposes by H. D. Sankalia (Archaeology of Gujarat) and A. K. Majumdar (Chaulukyas of Gujarat). This attempt aims at saturatiog the desideratum by critically studying various aspects of the Dvyāsrayakāvya. The method of classification, investigation
1. Hooykaas, C. old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa, an exemplary Kakwin, New
Holland, 1958.