________________ 16 tain that poets, even if not born, could be made, and that even Pratibh, can be produced. Even if a person be endowed with Pratibha - Sabaja or Utpadya, he has to get conversant with grammar, vocabulary, prosody, poetics, literature, arts and sciences as well as with the various ways of the world of men, animals, vegetation and other elements of the Nature. Instructions could be given to a budding poet in this respect. He could be instructed in the various sciences conducive to the composition of Poetry, as, for example, in grammar, vocabulary, prosody, figures of speech, rasas and bhavas and so fortb. He could be even supplied with set words and phrases that suited the various metres and the various figures of speech. The study of Poetics may make him proficient in the theoretical discourse on Poetry, but these instructions could serve him directly in the practical procedure of poetic compositions. Hence the subject of Instructions to Poets in the composition of Poetry developed side by side with Poetics. In course of time the subject was styled Kavisiksa or Kavyasiksa. Literature on Kavyasiksa : In the beginning instructions to aspiring poets may have been given orally, but in course of time they were gradually put to writing. Some scholars began to adopt topics of Kavyasiksa in their works on Poetics. Ksemendra (11th cent.), for instance, included some of these topics in his Aucityavicaracarca and Kavikanthabharana. Acarya Hemacandra and the two Vagbhalas purposely incorporated these topics along with the general theories of Poetics. But none of these could serve as direct and complete manuals, to the budding poet. By this time some also contributed direct manuals that could guide the aspiring poet in the practical aspect of his pursuit. The earliest known work on this subject is Kavisiksa by Acarya Jayamangala, who seems to have flourished in Gujarat during the reign of Siddharaja Jayasimha (1094-1143 A. C.). Kavikalpatataviveka by an anonymous author, too, is an early work on the subject, as its MS. is dated V. E. 1205 (1148-49 A. C.). Kavyakalpalata composed by Thakkura Arisimha and Amaracandrasuri, who flourished in the literary circle of Mahamatya Vastupala (1220-1240 A. C.), is a well-known work on this subject. It is elucidated by Amaracandrasuri through his commentary entitled Kavisiksa, which presents a continuous annotation on the Karikas of the original work. Kavyasiksa by Acarya Vinayacandra was written almost about the same time, but it is planned differently. Kavyakalpalata by Devesvara (circa 14 th cent.) is written on the model of the earlier Kavyakalpalata mentioned above. These treatises naturally do not deal with the conventional topics of
