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of his authority by quoting from it in his Sabdānušāsapa' and 'Desirāmamāla'. He wept a step further. He himself composed illustrations for the very large mumber of Açabhramśa metres, which he has defined in his 'Chandonvśāsana' Naturally the effect if this treatment was quick and marvellous". 15
We can visualise two peculiarities of Hemacandra's 'ChandonuśasaDam'.
(1) To suggest the number of ganas, Hem acapdia adds vowels according to their order, in the consonants denoting ganas.
Tbus 'Ma'=one 'ma' gana; Māstwo 'ma' ganas; 'Mi’=three 'ma' ganas, Mi=four 'ma' ganas and so on Sometimes he uses dual form of the gaņa to suggest two gaņas.
(2) Hemacandra does not use code-words like 'Samudia', 'Rasa' etc. for denoting yati (poetic pause), like Pingala and others. For this purpose be uses consonants. The order of that particular consonant shows the position of the Yati e. g. in Pankaja Vaktra' metre, Yati is shown by
gba za'. Now 'gba' is a fourth consonant ard 'za' is nioth one. So in that matre Yati is after fourth and ninth syllables.
This code system is quite new and is seen in Hemacandra's Chandopuśāsana only. By the help of this system he was able to write more precisely than Pingala, Dr. Suryakant botes the brevity of style achieved by him, "Hem acandra's style is laconic. He compresses the sense in the briefest space possible". 1.6
Hemacandra's newly invented code system followers.
is not accepted by his
Kavidarpanakära :
Rajasthān Oriental Research Institute, Jodhpur, has published in 1962 "Kavidar pana' with a Sanskrit commentary, edited by Prof. H. D. Velankar. This is an anonymous work written by a Jaina author. Kavidarpaņa is a work on metres written in Prakrit langrage. It starts with words 'Paņamia Asihantam gurum Vocchāmi.' Kavidar paņa' is referred
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