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exhaustive have been pointed out in the preceding pages. He amplifies Anandavardhana's specifications of four varieties of Vastudhvani to thrice their number with apt illustrations in Prakrit. He follows the age-old practice of giving stock examples quite scrupulously but, being conscious of the practical nature of poetics, adds here and there examples which serve to widen the student's range of study. He avoids unnecessary and irrelevant elaboration in the gloss (e.g. the Padaprakāśyatva of Bhāvādi etc,, gloss. p. 87). But he does not hesitate to add often supplementary matter in the Viveka when it is needed for the advanced student. His zeal for clarification ('Bhama dhammia', for instance, is fully explained) makes him quote profusely (Vide under Sutras 1.8, 1.10, 1.16 ff, 1.24 ff, II.1, II.17 ff, 1.3 ff, etc.)
The Sources of Hemachandra's Work
Prof. S. P. Bhattacharya has shown in detail and Dr. V. M. Kulkarni has graphically tabulated the different authorities and sources of Hemachandra's Kāvyānuśāsana. Thus in chapter I, we can see the influence of the Kavyaprakāśa and the author is guided by the Dhvanyaloka and the Locana in the dominance of the Vyañjanā view. Hemachandra has occasionally utilized the K. P., especially in the treatment of the Vṛttis, though he strikes a different note from Mammata here and there (on Gauņi, Kavipraudḥokti, Divisions of the Madhyama-Kavya, Kākuvakrokti, etc.). In this connection, Dr. V. M. Kulkarni remarks, "Hemachandra shows independence of thought and judgement in good many places, refusing to follow blindly his acknowledged authorities. To wit, he rejects.... three of the six Kavyaprayojanas given by Mammata (pp. 5-6); he differs with Mukulabhatta and Mammata for he holds that Lakṣaṇā is based on Prayojana alone.... He rightly rejects the threefold classification of Artha into Svataḥ Sambhavi etc.... as found in the Dhv. (pp. 72-73) and the K. P. (IV. 39-40). Hemachandra criticises Dhanika for describing Jimütavahana as Dhirodatta (vide KS p. 123 II. 19-21 and DR II. p. 37). If Mammața speaks
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