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Notes.
ADHYAYA I. While writing the present work, Hemchandra had clearly before him ancient works on poetics especially काव्यप्रकाश of मम्मट. Works like काव्यप्रकाश start with कारिकाs, that is, verses usually in 81969 or 3raf metre. These wiføls are almost versified Sutras and are pregnant with deep meaning. In order to explain clearly these pithy verses (*1918), generally an author himself writes a commentary thereon. Thus the ærfærs along with its commentary form the text of the work.
In the present work, Hemchandra has adopted the same method. He first writes a Fifat and then explains the meaning of that #f41, himself. But this explanation, the author does not feel to be quite adequate. He, therefore, has written another commentary, this time thoroughly exhaustive, furnished with detailed discussions and illustrations that explain the text most clearly. He has given the name of fage to this bulky commentary.
Lay readers and college students are not expected to go through this fačte of Hemchandra. We have therefore availed ourselves of the rich material in this faat and have tried to explain the body of the text with the aid of faa.
In the verse " GUFE TTATEARAH" Hemchandra says that he writes 4107/Tata for the pleasure of the learned in the field of poetics. In the introductory verse, Hem. has tendered his obeisance to the supreme soul. But not being satisfied with this verse, he writes another
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