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Vinaya-pitaka and the Dighnikaya, doing the metrical and grammatical analyses by computer.
For the present volume, a computer was also used to make forward and reverse pada indexes to the Theragatha based on Oldenberg's edition, including several pādas from the text edited critically by Norman and that by Alsdorf. I wonder why they have neglected the latest edition of the Jaina Agamas by Muni Shri Punyavijayaji and Jambūvijayaji. If they have strong valid reasons for prefering the texts edited by the Western veterans, it is high time they should come forth and put forward their reasons before the academic circles the world over.
However, in spite of this, both these scholars deserve to be very heartily congratulated for their labour of love for the texts they have covered so far and are going to cover in next few years. They have been doing a highly valuable work calculated to trace the source of each and every word and every quarter of a metrical verse of the vast early Jain and Buddhist texts. N.M.K.
Lele, W.K., Bhämaha's Kävyälaṁkära A Stylistic and Methodological Study, Mansanman Prakashan, 4/40 Chandra Prakash, Karve Road, Pune 411 004, 1999, pp. 147, Rs.150/-.
Since 1963, Bhamaha's Kavyalamkāra captured the mind of Lele, for Bhamaha's exensive and intensive reading, conversancy with the niceties of ancient Kavya literature, a methodical treatment of the subject, a studious exposition of various topics, interdisciplinary study and a rare and queer exposition of various topics, of humility and forthrightness. Ever since then an intensive desire to write a book in Marathi, styled 'Sailiśästrajña Bhāmahd, which was published by Mananman Prakashan in 1995. As it was well received by the university students and teachers, he was encouraged and he strongly felt it worthwhile to present it to the English readership. The present abridged book is the oucome of that exercise.
Since Bhamaha is a harsh logician at the same time having a deep insight into the characteristics of good literary style, he had been able to unfold the process of poetic creation step by step and in a convincing manner, explaining simultaneously how words ae gradually changed, replaced and transformed beor they are finally selected and used in a piece of poetic writing. His discussion in this comnection appears to be baed on his own experience a poet. Besides, the iscussion is substantiated by an admirably fine analysis Panini's Astādhyayi, Sanskrit grammar. His whole work is colored with h
