Dvyasrayakavya

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

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Dvyāśrayakāvya
rations, yet the examples appear to be arranged beautifully and expressively. Hemacandra is capable of writing emotional poetry? expressing the feelings of women and reproducing the language of childern3 or villagers4.
Although Hemacandra tried his best to adjust examples beutifully, yet sometimes it becomes difficult to proceed further without the help of the commentator Abhayatilakagaại. In any aspect, the Dvyāśrayakāvya is not easier than the Bhattikāvya in which it is declared that "the poeni is just like a lamp for those who have grammar as their eyes6" or "bis poem is he understood with the help of a commentary and is joyous to scholars 6." The Bhatti-kāvya is easier because it does not illustrate all sūtras of Pāṇini ; omits Vedic and accentual rules and does not exemplify rare and obsolete worlds? where as each and every example of the Siddhahaimaśabdāpuśāsana is given in the Dvyāśrayakāvya. Consequently Hemacandra had to innovate a few circumstances like that of divine voice (Canto XI) to exemplify of a few portions of grammar.
ARRANGEMENT : In other grammatical poem viz. the Bhațți-kāvya, the Rāvaņārjuniya and the Vāsudevavijaya, the theme was arranged according to grammatical division i.e. wheresoever a grammatical division comes to an end, the poetic division (a canto) also came to an end. But this arrangement is not adopted by Hemacandra. He mainly depends on the theme and arranges bis grammatical division in accordance with his poetic division. In a grammatical
1. Dy.X. 40. 2. ibid., II. 47. 3. ibid., VIII. 12. 4. ibid., II. 41. 5. Bhattt-kāvya, XXII. 33. 6. ibid., XXII. 34. 7. Narang, S.P. Bhatti-kāvya ; a study, p. 88.