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Kävyakalpalatävṛitti
It seems that fanf the author of on Amara Candra's work has taken some inspiration from Deveśvara.
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In 2.4,, the illustrative treatment is a little too brief, though it is wellplanned, effective and to the point.
The third, with its six Kusumas, lays down practical model illustrations of the description of six different topics on which a poet can write. These topics, राजदर्शनं गङ्गास्तुतिः, भगवत्पादानुभाषणं विप्रसम्भाषणं, तडागादिवर्णनं, and वादितर्जनं give excellent guidance to the poets on what and how to write. Even the two types of Kathā mentioned in the beginning वीतरागकथा and विजिगीषुकथा and the details that follow are very much interesting indeed. The topics of fa etc., are also nicely dealt with, and they give so many possible options of addresses and traits of etc., that a poet can possibly make use of even, in his own composition. This whole topic can be adjudged as the best in the work and a fairly remarkable contribution of Deveśvara to the problem of fafe. We may also stress again that many Kārilās and of course illustrations that Deveśvara seems to take from Amaral Candra, probably come from a common source made use of by both.
Footnotes:
1. Might be the same as Vṛtti'.
Details are given in the pages that follow.
3. Published by 'Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series', Benaras - 1931.
4. Detailed description of mss. used follows.
5. Ed. by Dr. H. G. Shastri and published by L. D. Bharatiya Prächya Vidya Mandir, Ahmedabad 9. Vide also a comparison with this work given later.
6. It may be noted that the value of this type of criticism is now being recognised in the west as will be proved by some works of known authors.
7. 'Sanskrit Poetics', Vol. 2, p. 283.
'Sanskrit Poetics', Vol. 2, p. 285.
9. Others works attributed to āsada are उपदेशकन्दली आह्वानप्रकरण मेघदूतटीका 'सरसा'. 10. Vide : किञ्चिदरिसिंहकविकृतं किञ्चिदात्मकृतं च सूत्रं मयाऽमरेण व्याख्यानपद्धतिमानयिष्यते ।
A similar example may be stated to be that of Vämana, who composed first the
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