Jain Journal 1968 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 68

KAVYANUSASANA
The Kävyänutäsana was composed after Siddha-Hemasabdanusāsana and consists of 208 sutras divided into 8 adyayas In these 208 sutras, so to say, is concentrated the whole subject of Sanskrit poetics in all its aspects. This Kavyanutāsana of 208 sutras is, as the author says 'extended' (pratanyate) in the commentary named Alamkāra-cudāmanı
There is another commentary which the author in its first introductory verse calls the 'Viveka of the KāvyānuJāsana' This indicates that the author looks not only upon the sutras but also upon vṛtti as Kavyānuśāsana The purpose of writing the Viveka is expressed as 'to explain at certain places what is written and to add something at certain other places' (vivaritum kvacıddṛbdham navam samdarvitum kvacit)
In the Alamkāra-cudāmanı and the Viveka Hemacandra mentions by name about fifty authors, and about eightyone works In addition to these there are other works from which quotations are taken but whose names are not mentioned
In Kävyānusāsana Hemacandra has tried his best to be up-to-date regarding his authorities There is only another work which can bear comparison with the KävyānuJāsana and that is the Sahityadarpana of Visvanatha who wrote two hundred years after Hemacandra