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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION
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that he had carefully studied the authorities on poetics. 1 he matter relating to the predictive character of the initial letters and metrical feet, which the author treats of in Chapter 1, is generally described in works on metrics. Some early works on metrics are irretrievably lost but a few passages from such works are preserved in the works of later writers where they are quoted, perhaps directly from the original sources but inostly they appear at second hand, quoted from some writer who quotes them. Thus some ślokas are quoted by Nārāyaṇabhatta in his commentary on Vrttaratnā kara with the lintroductory remark : taduktam Bhāmahena 29. These blokas inform us of Varņa.phala and Guņa-phala. It is very doubtful if this Bhámaha is the same man who wrote Kāvyālańkāra'. Nārāyaṇabhatta also quotes some passages describing the deities of Gaņas and auspicious or inauspicious character of the initial Gaņas with the introductory remark : ...
अन्यैस्तु देवताफलस्वरूपाण्येषामुक्तानि- . It is the authors of Alankārsangraha and $C who have introduced this topic in works on poetics. In Chapter II the author gives a sevenfold classification of poets ba ed on their taste or aptitude for a particular type of literary composition. This classification is
29. Vide appendix-C.
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