Sahrdayaloka Part 02

SR No.: 006909
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Classification of Poetry
827 Sandhi-bandha, for Bhoja is also a prāksta mahākāvya. It is in apabhramsa language and mātrācchanda verses. Divisions in 'Sandhi-bandha' are termed Sandhis and Bhoja cites 'Abdhimathana' as its illustration :
"yo'pabhramśa-nibandho mātrā-cchandobhir, abhimato'lpadhiyām, vācyas sa sandhibandhas'
caturmukhóktábdhimathanā”di.” . Men of light intellegence relish this. The last line is not clear. Could it be "caturmukhokto ?” - i.e. it is said to be having four facets i.e. the four sárthas as its goal ? - As read in the present text - "caturmukhóktā’bdhi. etc, perhaps is meant to be "abdhi-mathana, as spoken (or written) by (some) caturmukha (or Brahma himself ?) Avaskandhaka-bandha is,
"ya iha dvicārikāvāg grāmyagirā giyate, gabhīróktah, sóvaskandhaka-bandhaḥ
abhidhīyate bhīmakāvyā”di.” (pp. 470, ibid) This is a major verse composition in a low variety of apabhramsa, i.e. grāmya variety. The divisions are termed avaskandhakas and 'Bhimakāvya' is an illustration. The reading "bhima-kāyā"di" seems to be faulty. Hemacandra has : "grāmyā’pabhramsa-bhāsā-nibaddhá- vaskandhabandham (bhīma-kāvyā"di).
This is read in the Kā. Šā., pp. 461, Edn. Parikh & Kulkarni, '64, Bombay. Kāvyaśāstra is defined by Bhoja (pp. 470, ibid) - as
"yatrárthaḥ śāstrāņām kāvye viniveśyate mahākavibhiḥ, tad bharți-kāvya-mudrārākṣasavat
kävyaśāstram syāt.” When the theme of various disciplines is presented in poetry by great poets as e.g. bhatřikāvya, or mudrārāksasa, it is termed kāvya-śāstram.
Bhoja gives two illustrations, one each from padya and nāšaka. Thus, this variety is wide enough to touch both śravya and preksya types.
śāstra kāvya is defined by Bhoja as -