Dvyasrayakavya

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

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of sources and facts and the technique of drawing conclusions in each chapter is as follows :
in the first chapter, an attempt has been made to present a brief account of the life of Hemacandra. G. Bühler's monograph 'The life of Hemacandrācārya' is unique in this field. For the analysis in this chapter, I have utilized Purātanapra. bandhasangraha and Kumārapālacaritasangraha also which bave not been used so far. Only significant events and characteri. stics of the life and personality of Hemacandra are given.
Io the second chapter, it is aimed at to enlist published as well as unpublished works of Hemacandra. In this connection , I have used various editions of his works, relevant articles ; published lists of manuscripts in various libraries and both old and new Catalogus Catalogorum of strenous scholars, T. Aufrecht and V. Raghavan. Some other works ascribed to to Hemacandra are still subject to controversy. The third chapter is a canto-wise summary of the Dvyāśrayakāvya.
Poet's erudition and allusive vision is appreciated in Indian literary criticism. Due to his command on various branches of Indian learning, Hemacandra is extoled with the epithet, "The ominscient of Kali Age (Kalikālasarvajña). Various allusions to the Veda, Vedānga, the Orthodox and Heterodox systems of Philosophy, Ayurveda, Dharmaśāstra Arthaśāstra, Kāmaśāstra, Mokşa, Music, Dance, Dramaturgy, Gajaśāstra, Ratnaśāstra, Rhetorics, Epics and the Purāņas have been made in the Dvyāšrayakāvya. For a comparison of these allusions, old ritualistic treatises, Sarvadarśanasangraha, Sāåkhyakārikā, Smộtis, Arthaśāstra of Kautilya, Amarakośà, the Abhidbānacintāmaņi of Hemacandra and the poems like Raghuvamsa and Meghadūta have been utilized occasionally. The cultural study of various aspects of the Dvyāśrayakāvya (infra ch. XII-XVII.) will also serve as addenda to his multifarious geographical, social, economic and religious erudition, These are the contents of the fourth chapter.