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THE SOURCES OF HEMACANDRA'S KĀVYĀNUŚĀSANA
Hemacandra's Kāvyānuśāsana is a very fine text-book on Alamkāra-śāstra. It is remarkable for its free use of the illustrious Alamkāra works that preceded it, as well as for its wealth of illustrations. It is admittedly a lucid compendium of the subject of poetics as developed by previous writers, most prominent of them being Bharata, Dandi, Vāmana, Rudraga, Rājasekhara (KM), Kuntaka, Abhinavagupta (Abh. and Locana), Dhanañjaya-Dhanika, Mahimabhafta, Bhoja (SK and ŚP), Kșemendra, Mammata and Rucaka or Ruyyaka (Samketa). The following table would give the reader a very good idea of the principal sources utilized by Hemacandra in the preparation of his Kāvyānušāsana :
.-Abhyasa
Subject Kävyānušāsana'
'Principal Source Sources Kävyaprayojana
Ch. I (pp. 3-6) KP I. pp. 6-10; RS p. 1;
Locana I pp. 40-41 Kávyakāraņa
(pp 7–33) - Pratibhā
-pp. 5–6
KM IV. pp. 12–13 -Vyutpatti
-pp. 7-13
Vāmana. 1-3; KM VIII (pp.35-41)
and Kavik-V. (pp. 17-20) pp. 13-14
Vāmana 1-3 ---Sikşá - Kavisamaya
pp. 14-33
KM-XI-XIV -Sabdārtha-harana Kāvya-svarūpa
pp. 33-42
KP. I. p. 13, p. 263, pp. 462-465, pp. 470-472 Dhv. and Locana
pp. 223-234 Sabdartha-svarūpa
pp. 42-87
Dhy. and Locana pp. 74, 78, 137139, 167-169, 255-257, 271-276,
351-356
(pp. 47–57) SP. VII (pp. 245-250) In his Sr. Pra. (p. 708) Dr. Raghayan observes :
"Not only the Gāthās and Sanskrt verses given as illustrations by Bhoja, but Bhoja's comments thereon are also reproduced completely by Hemacandra in his Kāvyānusāsana.... These six conditions (Abhinaya, Apadeśa, etc.,) and their illustrations are reproduced from the Sr. Pra.”
pp. 65-66
KP. V. (pp. 223-256) Rasalakşaņa
Ch. II (pp. 88-105)
pp. 88-89 KP. IV-pp. 91-95 -pp. 89-105 Abh.-(Vol. I) pp. 272-287
