Kavyanushasana Critical Study

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye

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Poetic Training or sikşā defined
As the word śikṣā is a technical word of Sanskrit poetics, Hemachandra defines the concept of Sikşā or Kavisikşā as it is known to students of Sanskrit poetics.14 Śikṣā consists of (i) the poetic conventions such as non-mention of things which exist, mentioning non-existent objects, artificial restriction of wide-spread objects to a particular place only and, (ii) dependence in the form of shadow and so on. While adapting and adopting portions both in the body of the text a's well as in the commentary from Rajasekhara's Kävyamimāṁsā (Chapters XIV, XV), Hemachandra's has been selective. Thus Śikṣā which means training of a poet, is two-fold : (a) consisting of poetic conventions and (b) consisting of imitations of well-known authors in various respects.
Kavisamaya or Poetic Convention
While dealing with the subject of poetic convention or Kavi. samaya, the gloss on Sūtra No. 10 (K.A.S.l. 10ff) explains that non-mention of even the actual pertains to genus, substance, quality and action, etc., non-mention of even the not actual relates to genus, substance, quality, action, and so on, restriction means confining to one application, a more widely applicable genus, substance, quality and action etc.
Borrowing or Dependence
Borrowing or Dependence ( 3451277) in the form of shadow and so on' (la), can be by way of a sort of "imaging', 'painted copy-sketch', 'corporeal equivalence' and *foreign--city-entrance-likeness'. Borrowing can further include 'dependence' in word, line, etc., as may seem proper, on another poem, as well as 'filling-up verses and son on' by virtue of the word Ādi (so on) in the Sūtra (K.A.S.I, 10). These are the instructions of a poet. This analysis of the relevant Sūtra and the Vștti thereon clearly shows that Hemachandra restricts
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