Dvyasrayakavya

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

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comparison ; Vedic and Classical mythology and the other worldly similes have been classified according to their upamānas.
Hemacandra bas followed the conventional characteristics of a Mahākāvya and accordingly, has depicted excellence and benevolence in his royal characters whereas the opponants are portrayed as corrosive, destructive and horrible. No innovation or novelty can be observed in the characterization of the Dvyāśrayakāvya. An attempt has been made to draw a brief portrait of the characters of the Dvyāśrayakāvya in the ninth chapter.
In the tenth chapter, metrical analysis of the Dvyäsraya has been made. Metres are arranged both canto-wise and alphabetically.
The Dvyāśrayakāvya is a most authentic historical document for the history of the Caulukyas of Gujarat by an eurdite contemporary author. Undoubtedly, Hemacandra had another purpose of writing a grammatical poem but historical facts rarely escape from his vision. A few poetical elements crept into the poem which were responsible for the change in facts. For the historical evaluation, various contemporary Praban. dhas, poems, accounts of Mohammadan historians, inscriptions of the Caulukya kings, archaeological evidences ; accounts of Bayley, Forbes, Gezetteers and the works of G.C. Ganguly and A.K. Majumdar have been frequently utilized. An attempt has
been made to separate the facts from fiction and it has been striven to search out their causes.
It is the most mature poem amongst the grammatical poems because it not only illustrates each and every sūtra of Haimaśabdānušāsapa but also clarifies them through counterexamples. A study of the technique of illustrations has been made in the chapter XI th (a) (a is added due to a misprint of XI instead of XII). It comprises of the treatment of the