Hemchandracharyas Literary Accomplishment

SR No.: 034276
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Jaibhikkhu Sahitya Trust
Total Pages: 27
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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34 Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment the true spirit of historian essimates only historical facts. While eulogizing the Chaulukya dynasty, he has never slipped into exaggeration or crossed the bounds of historicality. He has neither imaginatively created any incident nor accepted without proper investigation any story that had passed by word of month. Kalikalsarvagna's non-sectarian genius blooms in 'Dvasraya'. In it one finds illustrations from the Vedic literature, different Puranas, Puranic stories and scriptures of other religions.
Hemchandracharya's Literary Accomplishment 35 to Kumarpal. The way in which Shrutadevi's advice has been woven the texture of the book adds to the poetic value of the book, One finds in it the pleasing presentation of sentiments of calmness, of love and of bravery. Though the main sentiment is the sentiment of love, other sentiments are properly co-ordinated with it. The natural beauty of language and pictorial descriptions appeal to a lover of poetry. Besides, the poet has nicely used, figures of speech such as simile. Utpreksha, Deepak, Drustanta, Rupak (matapor) and Atishayokti (exaggeration). Seaing all this, Purnakalashagani, the commentator of the Prakrit 'Dvasraya' speeks out of the outset :
या प्रकृतव्याकरणं नु शष्यैः साहित्यसर्वस्वभिवार्थभडाया । स दयाश्रयः काव्यमनल्पबुद्धि झेयः कथं भदश एव गम्यः ।।
"How can such a reader as I understand the Dvasraypoem which is in words a Prakrit grammar but in meaning the whole literature which is comprehensible only to those who are very intellenctual ?"
In Sanskrit Dvashraya' poetry is subordinated to history. The sanskrit 'Dvashraya' is written in seven contos of
Siddhahemchandrasabdanushasan', The Prakrit Dvashraya was written to illustrate the rules of grammer of the Prakrit language. Since certain incidents from the life of King Kumarpal are taken as its basis, this work is also called *Kumarpal Charit'. The first six of the eight cantos of this work gives rules and illustrations of Maharashtriya Prakrit. In the remaining two cantos one finds illustrations of Maharashtriya Prakrit. In the remaining two cantos one finds illustrations of Saurseni, Magadhi, Paishachi, Yulikapaishachi and Apabhramsha languages. 747 verses in the 8 cantos give discription of Anhilpurpatan, the Jain image, Kumarpal's canguests, the search of principles of the Jain religion and Shutadevi's advice
One finds in both these epics beautiful traditional descriptions and use of figures of speech. But they do not satisfy condition of the hero's full character-sketch which is expected of a Sanskrit epic. The story of this poem will be memorable form over for Gujarat's self-consciousness, heroism