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ŠĶNGARAMANJARİKATHA
Kadavakka (कडवक्क) P.१७
-is a Sanskrit rendering of the Prakrit word 2509 (See Svayambhūcchandas, VIII, 30, Journal of the University of Bombay. November 1936, कडवय here is by mistake printed as कउवय ) Hemacandra and others give its Sanskrit form as 3a, that is with a single # (See the first sūtra of the Chandonuśāsana). It is also written as 150 (Cf. Kavidarpana, edited by Prof. H. D. Velankar, A. B. O. R. I. XVI i-ii 1935, note 51). Old Gujarati narrative poems were also composed in units called 57. But here #597 does not appear to be an unit of composition, but a variety of composition. It may be noted that this form of composition is peculiar to the Apabhrarśa literature, while here the use of the word is with reference to the Purānas. Can we infer that the author had in view some Apabhramsa Purāņa or some Purānas in the local language of the times?
Manikulya ( मणिकुल्या) P. .१७
-is a kind of composition described by Bhoja in the SP thus: (Vol. II, p. 428).
मणिकुल्यायां जलमिव न लक्ष्यते यत्र पूर्वतो वस्तु। पश्चात्प्रकाशते सा मणिकुल्या मत्स्यहस्तादि।
Nidarsana (निदर्शनम् ) P. १७ —is a kind of composition. Bhoja describes it thus:
निश्चीयते तिरश्चामतिरश्चां वा यत्र चेष्टाभिः । कार्यमकार्य वा तन्निदर्शनं पञ्चतन्त्रादि ।। धूर्तविटकुट्टनीमतमयुरमार्जारिकादि यल्लोके ।
कार्याकार्यनिरूपणपरमिह निदर्शनं तदपि ।। (SP, Vol. II, p. 428) The second type of Nidarśana described by Bhoja shows that it em braced the works which describe the proper and improper actions as is done in the works like the Kuttanimata.
Technically speaking this description appears to be applicable to the SMK, though in the text as shown at length in chapter IV it is always referred to and recognized as a kathā and nowhere it is called Nidarśana. But a detailed consideration of the question awaits the publication of the full text of SP, so that we may have all the data relevant for judging whether the distinctions made by Bhoja between different kinds of Prabandhas are well defined and mutually exclusive.
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