Kalplata Vivek

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

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(1) Dosa-darsana - the section wherein the blemishes of poetry are shown - pointed out. (2) Guna-vivecana -- the section wherein the excellences of poetry are critically discussed. (3) Sabdalamkara-darsana - the section wherein the figures based on sound (sabda ) are shown. (4) Arthalamkara-nirnaya - the last section wherein the figures based on sense (artha) are settled. : It is interesting to note that the names of these chapters are all very significant. Dosas or blemishes are to be pointed out so as to enable the aspiring poets to avoid them. Gunas are to be critically discerned from the apparant qualities of Kavya, which can be achieved by the mere avoidance of some dosas. Figures of sound are to be actually paraded while figures of sense offer a source of controversies as to their number, names, varieties etc. and therefore they are to be settled. Strange as it would appear Viveka does not have a separate mungala verse of its own. It begins with the verse, "yat pallave na vivytam &c", which as we saw above not only offers an apology for this work but also suggests its scope. After this it comments on the mangala versel of the original - Kalpalata, which probably had more than one such verse. (I) Dosa-darsanam : (P. 1, 1. 24) Most of the writers on Sanskrit Poetics from Bharata downwards have indulged in lengthy discussions regarding the blemishes (dosah ) of * Poetry. Poetry should be free from blemishes as far as it can. A poem which contains poetic blemishes or even a single palpable blemish ceases to be good poetry. Not a word should be defective in a poem. As by a bad son so by a bad poem one is disparaged.3 Dandi tells us that even the slightest blemish would disfigure a poem just in the same way as a small lesion of leprosy would spoil even a beautiful figure. Bhoja points out that whoever knows how to avoid the threefold dosas deserves to compose a poem. Defective language (in a poem) proclaims the 1. The mangla verse is : सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ यत्र चित्रं खद्योतपोतको / farzlichTU JA Fulfa 74: II (Viveka P. 1, 1. 8) 2. Or the other verse is the Mangala of Kalpa-pallava. 3. age 96447a fanlah7777 i fant fe 47cma gugaaa fazaa Il B. K. L. I. 11.. 4. apagala aloezi lagi ia7 | Frag: y-itala fara gang || K, D. 1. 7. 5. ga qarai 91491ai 917979fai a : fa: 1 alargall are a flat gwefa II S. K. 1. 58.