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ADHYAYA VIII The eighth chapter is devoted to the description of the various kinds of poetry in which drama occupies a very important place. The division of poems is based on the poems being either sett i. e. that which can be witnessed and you that which can be heard while read by oneself. Under come all the varieties of a drama while 1827 poems include every variety of a poem that can only be read but not staged.
In the following quotation from hala the etymology of the word afa is given. Fra is both a seer and a narrator. A historian is a seer no doubt, but he is not a narrator or a story-teller; he is simply a chronicler; he, therefore, is not a pla. Similarly, a work on history is not a poem. va is first regarded as a synonym of Er which means a seer; ma is a seer, inasmuchas he, with his divine vision, fathoms the very secrets and the peculiar characteristics of all kinds of things (19). Because he sees the essence of things, he is called a poet. But that is not all. The poet is also a master of narration. He describes things with supreme skill and absorbing interest. These two qualities, therefore, constitute the characteristics of a poet, aretta, the first poet, was both an acute observer and a master-hand in description. He, therefore, deserved the title of a poet. The division of & is further sub-divided into 960 and 21.
In the third sutra, aga enmerates almost all the well-known varieties of the 9184 kind of poems such as atzo, gacor and others. Even is kind of a drama such asकर्पूरमजरी of राजशेखर is included in the list obviously
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