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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SAHRDAYĀLOKA "śāstram yatra kavīnām rahasyam upakalpayanty analpa-dhiyaḥ, tad rati-vilāsa-kāmandakīyavac
chāstrakāvyam tu.” (pp. 470, ibid) When discourses of śāstra or discipline are presented through poetry, we get śāstra-kāvya, kamandakiya niti-śāstra and Rativilāsa which is lost to us for the present, are illustrations of this type. Technical subject presented through poetry makes for śāstra-kävya. Dr. Raghavan observes : (pp. 626, ibid)
"Under the sabdálamkāra Adhyāya, Bhoja mentions Six Varieties one of which is Kāvya-Šāstra, 'śāstre kāvya-viniveśaḥ kāvya-śāstram? Kāvya-śāstra in that place is the śāstra-kavya mentioned here. See S.K.A. pp. 260. Other varieties mentioned there are śāstra, which is the kāvya śāstra (e.g. Bhatřikāvya) here mentioned, itihāsa, kāvyétihāsa, and śāstrétihāsa."
We feel that Bhoja wants to underline that kāvya-śāstra and śāstra-kāvya are different from each other. In the former the theme of śāstra is covered in Kävya, in the latter śāstra itself is presented as kāvya. If we find beautiful poetry in the upanişads, or the Bhagavad geetā, they illustrate śāstra-kāvya. We feel some of the kārikās in the Dhv. such as Dhv. IV. 4.
"drstapūrvā api hy arthāḥ kāvye rasa-parigrahāt, sarve navā ivā”bhānti madhumāsa iva drumāh." and, Dhv. IV. 10, "vācaspati-sahasrāņām sahasrair api yatnataḥ nibaddhā sā ksayam naiti
prakrtir jagatām iva." could be taken as illustrations of Kāvya-śāstra while the famous verse quoted also in the Dhv., from the Bhagavad Geetā viz.
"yā niśā sarvabhūtānām..." etc. could be taken as illustration of śāstra-kavya. Actually the description of Aśvattha tree, or say, most part of the B.G. is śāstra in the garb of poetry.