Kavyakalpalatavrutti

Author(s): Amarchand Maharaj, R S Betai, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Kāvyakalpalatāvsitti
its readers. It seems that the editor did not have access to so many mss. available to us to-day.
We have therefore undertaken this ambitious programme of preparing a thoroughly revised critical edition of loy atafe together with the ‘Parimala' as also the 'Makaranda', the latter two seeing the light of publication for the first time. This would be a fit tribute to the tireless scholarship and erudition of Amara Candra Yati, whose life-time work now fully appears in print. We have made use of so many very valuable and old mss. and referred to several others4 for revision of the printed text and a critical editing of the 'Parimala' and 'Makaranda'.
A word, to be elaborated later in its proper place, may be added about the value of the subject matter of the work to justify this patient, hard and long-time effort and publication of the work. The work, as its name shows, is on the training and equipment of a poet, Krefer and 3792TH of traditional writers. All topics therefore, associated with the two are discussed by the author. He expects the poet to be well- equipped on the lines laid down by him and then to train himself in the composition of poetry so that he progresses step by step and constantly evolves into a greater poet by scaling higher and higher heights. The sum-total of all this discussion is that the poet should be a 631. But important is the fact that he shows how he can become a 403t; this HOEIC that comes by stages is also expected to be well-planned systematic. This brings in the discussion of four main topics $8-c:fifs, paffs, office and 37effafia in four WAY. Other important topics discussed and analysed are aufi, 36 yafafe, fe448, 3761car and 854' etc. All these are of importance on the art-side (Kalāpaksa) of Kāvya and therefore the poet is expected to master these. We do not come across such detailed discussion on the topics and the problem posed in any work accepted by tradition. Thus, the work is original in its own way and so is the subject-matter that perhaps no other author could analyse and elaborate better, not even Vinaya Candra Sūri, the writer of lufte. The work of Amara Candra Yati would therefore be a positive addition to knowledge in general and add substantially to the wealth of knowledge of poetics in particular
S. K. De, in his 'Sanskrit Poetics' gives a rather small but separate chapter entitled "writers on Kavi-siksā” and pays a fine tribute to this work of Amara Candra Yati. He is, however, not clear on the value of works on training of poets. He states