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Poetics & Prosodyअलङ्कारः छन्दश्च

Jaina treatises on the art of poetry and the science of metre, with their commentaries

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Jaina scholars wrote some of the most systematic treatises on alaṅkāra, the art of poetry, and chandas, metre, and often commented on them themselves. Each work here opens adhyāya by adhyāya. The sūtra comes first, with the commentaries layered beneath it.

Layered commentariesHemacandra's Alaṅkāracūḍāmaṇi comes first, with his fuller Viveka folded beneath it. Open either one per sūtra or for the whole adhyāya.
ExamplesThe illustrative verses keep their numbers, and every Prākṛta verse shows its Sanskrit chāyā.
Ṭippaṇa & pagesGlosses from the palm-leaf ṭippaṇa appear under the passage they explain, beside the page numbers of the printed edition.
SearchSearch the sūtras and both commentaries together, in any script. Diacritics and spacing are ignored.
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More works on alaṅkāra and chandas will be added to this section.