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newlines of his own composition, transforms the each verse into metaphysical poem. Adroit Jinasēna does not hesitate to state that kukavis, the bad poets, employing kavi-samaya/ kāvya-dharma have considered srngära as satya, but in truth it is the reverse of it, asatya, upholding ethical instruction.
6.7.3. Jains are credited with authorship of first work on poetics in Kannada language. Kavirājamārga of Srivijaya (C. E. 850) is a free adaptation of Kāvyālankāra (Bhāmaha) and Kävyādarśa (Dandin), two early Sanskrit works on the art of poetry. It opens with Jinastuti, invocatory verse of Jina. Kavirājamārga has unique indigenous ideas independent of Bhāmaha and Dandin. In particular, Srivijaya's dekinition of great poetry takes the reader beyond the scope of Kāvyādarśa or Kāvyālarkara, source texts, to the bhāva of the author on the one hand and to the višeşa of sabdas as well as alankaras relating to arthavyakti.
6.7.4. Treatment of mārgas and their guņas in relation to particular rasas in Kavirājamārga are innovatives of Srivijaya, which has not parallel in either Bhāmaha or Dandin. His nomenclature of Karuņārasa pathetic sentiment, in place of Karuņarasa, reflects his view that mārgas are dependent on rasa. That there are instances to show Srivijaya's progressive idea. His awareness of dhvani as a poetic concept, which he considers as an alankāra, earlier to Anandavardhana, is remarkable.
6.7.5. "... Jaina monks and scholars that imigrated into Karņāțaka, at the beginning composed their works in their own language, viz., the Jaina Sauraseni, brought the native language to the literary level by cultivating it and finally merged their literary genius, together with themselves, into the general culture of the land of their adoption which they loved as their own, which fact is lucidly reflected in the famous Kuppatūr inscription" (Kadabadi, B. K. : 185).
6.7.6. Scholar-Monks once again established the vigour
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