Sambodhi 2002 Vol 25

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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ALAM KĀRAKĀRIKĀ* - a critical study
PARUL K. MANKAD
Alamkāraśāstra has its own reputated place in the field of Sanskrit learning and research. The word Alamkāra is used in two types of senses : wider and limited. The first represents the whole idea of poetic beauty. Anything like guna, rīti, vịtti, the alamkāras of word and of sense, the rasa, the samdhyangas, the vịttyangas and whatever else that beautifies poetry are known by the term 'alaikära' (beauty of poetry). And the latter sense represents only the figures of speech and sense. Ānandavardhana's predecessors upheld both the terms, while Anandavardhana and his followers have used the terin alamkāra in limited sense. Since Bhāmaha and others and up to Narendraprabha have used the wider sense even the titles of their works such as Kāvyālamkāra, Alamkāramahodadhi, incorporate the term — Ruyyaka, Sobhākaramitra, Appayyadiksita have used the word alamkāra in limited sense.
The present work proposes to discuss arthālamkāras in Kuvalayānanda as delineated in it. Naturally here the term alamkāra is used in limited sense. Jayadeva's Candrāloka (fifth chapter) has influenced the present work. But style and language and form are saine with Appayyadikşita's Kuvalayānanda (=Ku.). Of course Ku.'s vịtti is larger than the tippana on Alamkārakārikā. The tippana seems to be influenced by the commentary of Aśādharabhatta on Ku. One cannot be sure whether the author of Alamkārakārikā and that of A.K.Tippaņa are the same. Both the scripts are written by different scribes. So, inay be the writer of Tippana is not the same as A.K.'s — The Tippanakāra is also
Based on the ms. available from the collection of mss. in the L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. Description of the ms. material. No. 2. c. . 5698 size - 26' x 11.2 Pages - seven. country paper, 12 to 14 lines to a page; 40 letters to a line, Devanagari characters; borders ruled with double black lines. The Tippana is written in margin. Age - Samvat 1825 Condition - good.