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Introduction
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expressed as 'to explain at certain places what is written and to add something new at certain places.' A study of the Viveka shows that this purpose is carried out properly in it.
The number of quotations given in the Al. C. as illustrations are about 740, as authorities about 67, in all about 807; those in the Viveka, as illustrations about 624; as authorities about 201, in all about 825. Thus the total number of quotations in the Kāvyā. nuşāsana is about 1632.
In the Al.C. and the Viveka Hemachandra mentions by name about fifty authors, and about eightyone works. Many of the works named belong to the authors mentioned. In addition to these, I have traced the names of some works from which quotations are taken but whose names are not mentioned by Hemachandra. All these references will be found in indexes of authors and works (pp. 521-526 ).
This will give an idea of the usefulness of the Kávyānuşāsana for the history of Samskrta Poetics and Literature.
Now, let us see what problems of the Samsksta Poetics are discussed in the Kāvyānuşāsana. The first sūtra is devoted as usual to mangala - namaskára; while the second sūtra, after informing us that the correctness of speech has been discussed by the author in his Sabdānusāsana, lays down the Sastra - prayojana (the purpose of the treatise) viz:--the poetic aspect of the language. In other words - the author tells us that he is discussing Poetics in the treatise (pp. 1-3).
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