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Sometimes the true spirit of the suffix is observed in the Dvyāśrayakāvya which is rarely seen elsewhere e g. DV. VIII. 21 :
इषुभिरनयोथिंब्याथं व्यर्थव्यथमव्यथि, प्रतिकगयिता कागंकागं कगंकगमकगि । प्रतिजरयिता जारंजारं जरंजरमजरि, क्नसयितृजनः क्नासंक्नासं क्नसक्नसमक्नसि ॥
Besides these characteristics of poetry, there are a number of blemishes consisting of apras ddhadoșa, Srutikațutvadosa and Vidheyavimarśadosa etc. which are very natural because of the definite motive in hand
Amongst figures of speech? Hemacandra has used anuprāsa, Yaniaka, Vakrokti, Ślesa, Rūpaka, Sandeha, Virodha, Vyatireka, Virodhābhāsa, Bhrā. ntimăn, smarana, Yathāsamkhya and Svabhāvokti. His Rūpaka, Svabhāvokti, Upamā and Utprekṣā arc par excellence His similes cover a number of erudite fields which are rarely found in any work His sense of bringing the mythological characters, social substances as Upamānas particularly the grammar is rarely seen elsewhere. His explanation of compound in the battlefield is excellent e. g. Dv. V. 29
समासे नाम नाम्नेव शस्त्रं शस्त्रेण युध्यथ । ऐकायंयोजि विस्पष्टपटुभिर्जरैर्भटैः ॥ ॥
In the Dvyāśraya, Hemacandra has used twenty-nine metres. 2
Before Hemacandra, Bhatti had illustrated only a few adhikāras of pāņini's Așțădhyāyī and the 1. For full analysis : See Narang, S. P. Dvyūsrayakāvya, pp.
60 f. 2. Details : ibid. pp. 85-93.
