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Kāvyakalpalatāvsitti
This way also he avoids repetition and associates the present work with 3TCSRate and wants poets to study it. It is also proof of the fact that he has positively written this work on figures, but it is unfortunately lost. 'Parimala' Vrtti
As we have noted earlier, this Vrtti is available only upto a part of the seventh Stabaka. No available ms. goes further than this. But this commentary only on the 1/3rd of the work, is very wide, elaborate and detailed. Amara Candra adds so many things as follows:
(i) He adds detailed analytical comments on so many Kārilās that he did not touch upon earlier. Thus, in the Vrtti on 1.5, his note in the Vstti is faszi "Thef: in the Vrtti. But before adding this last remark, he has asked his readers and the aspiring poets to consult his 'Parimala' for his comments on this stabaka. Here, we have very elaborate comments on this stabaka. This fills up the vacuum in the Vrtti. Similarly, he proceeds to write long comments on 2.2 on which his remark in the 'Vrtti' is only this Franchise fi :
(ii) But, it seems that Amara Candra desires to give expression to all that he knew and grasped on the subject. That explains the elaborateness of the Parimala' Vrtti. Here, he names his sub-sections as and gives as many as 17
P to the first war, i.e., first five F1 of the work. Here also, he gives as many as six a to the second stabaka and as many as 7 497 to the fifth.
(iii) Thus, in his 'Parimala', the author adds whatever he feels he has missed or omitted in his 'Vrtti'. To take one example, he analyses with illustrations, these added metres - अष्टादशाक्षर, विंशत्यक्षर, द्वाविंशत्यक्षर to षड्विंशत्यक्षर He gives
more elaborate details of आर्यवृत्त and अर्धसमं छन्दः and विषमछन्दं all with suitable illustrations. He also takes up some E18C as his command over metres goes from good to better to best.
(iv) He deals with many new points in his 'Parimala' Vrtti on que facich (1.5), and gives so many long and longer lists of different types of words and shows their usage in poetry.
(v) He gives a brief but scholarly summary of as many as 14 śāstras, touches upon the basic elements and doctrines of these and shows how a knowledge of these is essential to a poet.
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