Kalplata Vivek

Author(s): Murari Lal Nagar, Harishankar Shastry
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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pallavasese Kalpalata-viveke etc." But this does not prove anything in the face of the specification in the colophon at the end of this work, where it is clearly stated that Kalpalata-viveka is its name. So .Kalpapallavasese' is in apposition to the name 'Kalpalata-viveke', just in the same way as in the phrase * Akbar, the mughal emperor', Akbar is the name and the mughal emperor' its descriptive epithet, irrespective of their order. (iv) The present work is a sub-commentary on Kalpalata. It is natural that it should suggest, as Hemacandra's Viveka does, its relation to the original. The compound Kalpapallava-sesa' would rightly describe its nature suggesting that Viveka is to supplement Pallava. Thus Kalpalata-viveka is the name of the present work. The non-mention of the name Viveka in the two verses at the end of this work may seem to militate against the above conclusion. But in view of the colophon one has to confess that the mention of sesa or Kalpapallava-sesa there, does not prove anything to the contrary. They are used there to describe the secondary nature of the present work. Again in the second verse the word 'Viveka' does not suit the metre, though in the first we can have "Kalpalata-viveko'yam", without impairing the metre, but then it would fail to describe the bearing of Viveka on the first commentary on Kalpalata, which is essential looking to the tenor of that verse. Therefore these verses do not suggest anything contrary to our above conclusion. Kalpalata and Kalpalata-viveka : As seen above Viveka is a supplement to Pallava, hence it is described as Kalpapallavasesa. The name Kalpalata-viveka means a discerning gloss on Kal palata.' But this gloss, as we shall see, is not a second, independent and direct commentary on Kalpalata but a sub-commentary, a supplement of the auto-commentary Pallava,8 for the following reasons : (i) The introductory stanza* in Viveka tells us that it is a gloss 1. gfa 969987510 sarjaa # &c. vide Viveka PP. 90, 100, 228 & 320. 2. कल्पपल्लवमात्रेण न ये कल्पलतां विदुः / 469929 si afHatalasqT: ( Viveka P. 320, 1, 19 ) पल्लवकलशविराजिनि कल्पलताविबुधमन्दिरे रचितः / STEET fanyai ... faqalas74 01 ( ibid P. 320, 1. 22) 3. It is interesting to compare Kalpalata-viveka and Hemacandra's Kavyanusasana viveka, which latter supplements his auto-commentary, Alamkaracudamapion Kavyanusasana. 4. quoted in fn. 1, P. 1 above also vide Viveka P. 1).