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{{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}}, or "Bhatti's Poem", is a Sanskrit-language poem dating from the 7th century CE, in the formal genre of "great poem" (mahākāvya). It focuses on two deeply rooted Sanskrit traditions, the Ramayana and Panini's grammar, while incorporating numerous other traditions, in a rich mix of science and art, poetically retelling the adventures of Rama and a compendium of examples of grammar and rhetoric.[1] As literature, it is often considered to stand comparison with the best of Sanskrit poetry.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}} The {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} also has {{IAST|Rāvaṇavadha}} ("The Death of {{IAST|Rāvaṇa}}") as an alternative title. It is improbable that this was the original title as Ravana's death is only one short episode in the whole poem. It may have acquired this title to distinguish it from other works concerning themselves with the deeds of {{IAST|Rāma}}. The poem is the earliest example of an "instructional poem" or {{IAST|śāstra-kāvya}}. That is not a treatise written in verse but an imaginative piece of literature which is also intended to be instructive in specific subjects. To modern tastes, however, this can create an unpardonable artificiality in the composition. To the critics of late classical times in India technical virtuosity was much admired. Much of the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}}{{'}}s popular success could also be ascribed to the fact that it must have been useful as a textbook. The authorThe author, {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}, describes himself at the end of the book: "I composed this poem in Valabhi which is protected by Narendra, son of Shri-dhara, hence may the fame of that king increase, since the king causes joy among his subjects." ({{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} 22.35) Even this eulogy is unreliable since variant readings of the verse show that his patron may have been Śrī Dharasena. Either way, the composition of the poem is placed at about 600 CE. The form of the poemIn form the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} is a “great poem” (mahākāvya). It fits well within the definition of this genre given later by {{IAST|Daṇḍin}} in his “Mirror of Poetry” the Kāvyādarśa:[2]
Its subject matter is the life of a single hero, both a member of the warrior caste and a god. Each canto has a uniform metre and there is one canto (canto 10) deploying a variety of metres. The end of each canto suggests the topic for the next. The main sentiment or rasa of the poem is “heroic”, (vīrya). The poem through its form and subject matter is conducive to the attainment of the four aims of human life ({{IAST|puruṣārtha}}): “righteousness” (dharma), “wealth and power,” (artha), “pleasure” (kāma) and “spiritual liberation” ({{IAST|mokṣa}}). {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem contains descriptions of cities, the ocean, mountains, seasons, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, and the sports of love and sex. Five such poems are traditionally enumerated in addition to which our work is sometimes named the sixth. The five are the {{IAST|Raghuvaṃśa}}[3] (“Lineage of Raghu”) and the Kumārasambhava (“Birth of the war God KumAra/KartikEya/Muruga”) of Kālidāsa, the Śiśupālavadha (“Slaying of Śiśupāla”) of Māgha,[4] Kirātārjunīya (“Arjuna and the Mountain Man”) of Bharavi and the {{IAST|Naiṣadhacarita}} (“Adventures of the Prince of Nishadha”) of {{IAST|Śrīharṣa}}. The multitude of manuscripts found in libraries demonstrates the popularity of the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} and the thirteen extant and eight further attested commentaries instantiate its importance to the tradition.[5] Purpose and content“{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” has two purposes: it is both a poetic retelling of the adventures of Rāma and a compendium of examples of grammar and rhetoric for the student. As literature, cantos 1, 2 and 10 in particular stand comparison with the best of Sanskrit poetry and there are many fine passages in the other cantos. The {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} provides a comprehensive exemplification of Sanskrit grammar in use and a good introduction to the science (śāstra) of poetics or rhetoric ({{IAST|alaṃkāra}}, lit. ornament). It also gives a taster of the Prakrit language (a major component in every Sanskrit drama) in an easily accessible form. Finally it tells the compelling story of Prince Rāma in simple elegant Sanskrit: this is the {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}} faithfully retold. The {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya and Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī}}, 'Eight Books'The learned Indian curriculum in late classical times had at its heart a system of grammatical study and linguistic analysis.[6] The core text for this study was the notoriously difficult “Eight Books” ({{IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī}}) of {{IAST|Pāṇini}}, the sine qua non of learning composed in the 8th century bce, and arguably the most remarkable and indeed foundational text in the history of linguistics. Not only is the {{IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī}} a description of a language unmatched in totality for any language until the nineteenth century, but it is also presented in the most compact form possible through the use of an elaborate and sophisticated metalanguage, again unknown anywhere else in linguistics before modern times. This grammar of {{IAST|Pāṇini}} had been the object of intense study for the ten centuries prior to the composition of “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem”. It was plainly {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s purpose to provide a study aid to {{IAST|Pāṇini}}’s text by using the examples already provided in the existing grammatical commentaries in the context of the gripping and morally improving story of the {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}}. To the dry bones of this grammar {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} has given juicy flesh in his poem. The same could be said for poetics, prosody and Prakrit. The intention of the author was to teach these advanced sciences through a relatively easy and pleasant medium. In his own words:
The traditional story given to account for the technical or shastric nature of the poem goes that {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s class on grammar was one day disturbed by an elephant ambling between him and his pupils. This bestial interruption necessitated an interdiction of study for a year as prescribed by the solemn law books. To ensure that no vital study time was lost our poem was composed as a means of teaching grammar without resorting to an actual grammatical text. The Structure of the Text
Grammar{{IAST|Prakīrṇa Khaṇḍa}} “Diverse Rules”In the first section of the poem, the {{IAST|Prakīrṇa Khaṇḍa}} “Diverse Rules”, where the intention appears to be the illustration of miscellaneous rules, it is not obvious how to determine which specific rule if any is intended to be exemplified in any particular verse. Hundreds of rules could in theory be applicable. The commentators assist somewhat where they cite those rules which they think to be worth quoting in that context. The other guide is the Sanskrit language itself: it is likely that the most unusual or aberrant forms would have been exemplified. The frequent coincidence of these two heuristic principles is also helpful. Where the word in the verse is also given as an example in the grammatical texts then we can be almost certain about the topic. It could be conjectured at this point that within this section of “Diverse Rules” those verses which were intended to illustrate the grammar would be those without figures of speech or at least with very simple figures. That supposition would be consistent with the lack of ornament in some sections of the poem and would also explain why there is such a marked distinction between {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s high style in canto 1 and much of 2 and his plainer style in much of the rest of the poem. It may be that “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” was first intended to be a typical courtly epic or “high kāvya” and that the idea of creating this new genre of educational poem or “śāstra-kāvya” evolved as the poem was being composed. This is supported by the progression in styles from highly ornate poetry in the first two cantos, through unadorned verse with no apparent systematic exemplification of grammar, the so-called “Diverse Rules Section” {{IAST|Prakīrṇa Khaṇḍa}}, to the second major section from near the end of canto 5 until the end of canto 9, the {{IAST|Adhikāra Khaṇḍa}} "Illustration of Particular Topics". {{IAST|Adhikāra Khaṇḍa}} "The Illustration of Particular Topics"The {{IAST|Adhikāra Khaṇḍa}} is the "Illustration of Particular Topics" in which the verses exemplify in sequence long series of rules from the “Eight Books”. Here again poetry is subjugated to the pedagogic purpose of exemplification: the metre is the humble {{IAST|anuṣṭubh}} or śloka and there are few figures of speech to decorate the tale. This change of metre from the longer 44 syllable upajāti for the first three cantos to the shorter and simpler 32 syllable {{IAST|anuṣṭubh}} for the next six may also be indicative of a gradually evolving intention. How does “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” illustrate {{IAST|Pāṇinian}} grammar?From the end of canto 5 up to the end of canto 9 the verses exemplify in sequence long series of aphorisms (sūtras) from the {{IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī}} of {{IAST|Pāṇini}}. These aphorisms are short coded rules, almost algebraic in form. {{IAST|Tiṅanta Khaṇḍa}} "The Illustration of Finite Verbs"Each canto from 14 through to 22 illustrates a particular mood or tense. For details see the table above. Relation to grammatical tradition ({{IAST|Vyākaraṇa}})A detailed study of the examples given in the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} compared with those of the earlier “Great Commentary” {{IAST|Mahābhāṣya}} of Patañjali and later works such as the “Kashi Commentary” Kāśikā and “Moonlight on the Tradition” Siddhāntakaumudī still needs to be done. It would be of particular interest to see to what extent examples of usage may have been introduced into the grammatical tradition by “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem”. Might the poem itself then have become an authority on usage? PoeticsCanto 10: the figures of speechThis section of the poem has been the most studied in modern times. It constitutes an important text in its own right in the history of Sanskrit poetics. That said, its importance lies in its raising far more questions than it answers. Chronologically it stands between the “Science of Theatre” {{IAST|Nāṭyaśāstra}} as the earliest surviving text on Sanskrit poetics and the first great systematic treatments of the subject in the “Mirror of Poetry” Kāvyādarśa of {{IAST|Daṇḍin}} (660–680 ce) and the “Ornament of Poetry” {{IAST|Kāvyālaṃkāra}} of Bhāmaha (700 ce).[8] Tantalizingly, we have the examples only and not the explanations or contemporary commentaries. A major problem of Sanskrit poetics is the lack of agreement on any system of nomenclature for the figures. The figures are given names in some manuscripts of the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}} but this is no proof that these were the names that {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} knew. The fact that this naming of figures is quite different from that of the writers on poetics suggests that they might well pre-date them. If this is the case then in these we have the fragmentary residua of a missing link in the tradition of poetics. It is most likely that {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} based his treatment of the figures of speech on a text now lost. Other questions about this canto present themselves. Why is there only one example of alliteration (anuprāsa)? Was this figure not fully elaborated until {{IAST|Daṇḍin}}? Why do those verses said to exhibit the figure ‘illuminator’ dīpaka in the manuscripts show nothing of the sort according to later theorists? Given that many of the verses contain more than one figure, does this mean that they were not intended to be a systematic illustration of figures but rather a collection of verses showing diverse poetic traits? Since the order of the names given in the manuscripts corresponds to the order of figures treated by {{IAST|Daṇḍin}}, did he base his work on this order or were the names applied retrospectively to “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” in an attempt to match it up to later systems? That “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” canto 10 is a major work on Sanskrit poetics is amply demonstrated by Söhnen[8] in her examination of ‘doubling’ yamaka of 10.2–22 showing that the treatment of this figure in {{IAST|Daṇḍin}}’s “Mirror of Poetry” and Bhāmaha’s “Ornament of Poetry” is influenced by the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}}. Cantos 11 and 12: {{IAST|guṇa}} and rasaCantos 11 and 12 are held to display respectively the quality {{IAST|guṇa}} of “sweetness” mādhurya and the sentiment rasa of “intensity of expression” bhāvikatva.[5] The texts describing these qualities post-date {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} so again we cannot be sure that he intended to illustrate what happens to be described by later authors. Assuming that {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} did intend to show these, their precise characteristics described in his source text would be best discovered from careful analysis of the language of his own work rather than from the pronouncements of later writers on poetics. Simultaneous Prakrit and Sanskrit "{{IAST|bhāṣāsama}}": Canto 13Canto 13 is written in what is called “like the vernacular” {{IAST|bhāṣāsama}}, that is, it can be read in two languages simultaneously: Prakrit and Sanskrit.[9] The Prakrit used here is of course no real vernacular but a literary version almost as highly codified as Sanskrit. Because of this Prakrit’s similarity to Sanskrit it can be read in that elevated language by someone with no knowledge of Prakrit. With minor exceptions the vocabulary and grammar used are common to both languages. Where the grammar is not common the differences are disguised by sandhi. As many of the Prakrit terminations originate in Sanskrit forms generalised to their most common forms in sandhi, this is not impossible. As an example, the nominative singular of substantives in -a in Sanskrit is {{IAST|-aḥ}} and in Prakrit it is -o. In verse 13.2 we have three nominative singulars in -a: {{IAST|bhīmaḥ}}, {{IAST|rasaḥ}} and {{IAST|samaḥ}}. In Prakrit they would be bhimo, raso and samo. Because the following words all begin with voiced consonants, in Sanskrit sandhi the ending {{IAST|-aḥ}} is in all these cases changed to -o, thus making the form indistinguishable from the Prakrit. Where the Sanskrit termination is undisguisably altered in Prakrit as for example with the instrumental plural {{IAST|-bhiḥ}} which becomes -hi, these terminations are concealed within compounds. It is for this reason that long compounds are so extensively used in this canto. The reader will also notice a lack of finite verb forms. It is more common for participle forms to be the same in the two languages. On occasion the commentators need a deal of learning and ingenuity to explain how forms are defensible in both languages. For instance in verse 13.3 the Sanskrit sabhā “hall” would normally become sahā in Prakrit by the rule {{IAST|khaghathadhabhāṃ haḥ}} “h is the replacement for kh, gh, th, dh and bh,” ({{IAST|Prākṛtaprakāśa}} 2.27). Mallinātha defends the retention of sabhā in Prakrit by saying that there is the continued operation ({{IAST|anuvṛtti}}) of {{IAST|prāyaḥ}} “generally” from an earlier rule. With the exception of verse 13.7 which is irregular and verses 13.26–28 which are in the upajāti metre, the entire canto is composed in the āryāgīti metre which is the older lyric metre most commonly used for Prakrit texts. MorphologyCantos 14 through to the end at canto 22 are each written in a particular tense or mood. Given that this is a rather broad restriction it is surprising that {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} does not indulge in more ornamentation in these verses. He does include many obscurer roots here but in other respects his language is simple and uncluttered. Influence beyond IndiaThe influence of "{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem" has extended beyond the geographical bounds of the Indian subcontinent to Java where it became the source text for the Old Javanese {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}}[10] which is the oldest surviving example of classical Javanese epic poetry (Kakawin). The Javanese {{IAST|Kakawin Rāmāyaṇa}} follows “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” closely as far as canto 12, sometimes to the extent of directly translating a verse, but begins to diverge thereafter. It would seem that the form of “{{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s Poem” as a ‘great poem’ mahākāvya was important to the Javanese author as many of his additions make more complete the Old-Javanese {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}}’s conformity to the genre as described by {{IAST|Daṇḍin}}, indicating that his “Mirror of Poetry” or its precursor as followed by {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}} was also available to him. Moreover Hooykaas[11] has also shown that the Old-Javanese {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}} uses ‘doubling’ yamaka under {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi}}’s influence. 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Notes1. ^Keith, A. B. 1928. A History of Sanskrit literature. Oxford: The Clarendon press. 2. ^S. K. Belvalkar. 1924. Kāvyādarśa of {{IAST|Daṇḍin}}. Sanskrit Text and English Translation. Poona: The Oriental Book-supplying Agency. 3. ^Goodall, Dominic and Isaacson, Harunaga, 2003. The Raghupañcikā of Vallabhadeva, being the earliest commentary on the {{IAST|Raghuvaṃśa}} of Kālidāsa, Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes, Volume 1. Groningen : Egbert Forsten. 4. ^Durgaprasada. 2000. Śiśupālavadha of Magha. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, K.S.S. no. 77. 5. ^1 Narang, Satya Pal. 1969. {{IAST|Bhaṭṭikāvya}}, A Study. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 6. ^Filliozat. 2002 The Sanskrit Language: An Overview — History and Structure, Linguistic and Philosophical Representations, Uses and Users. Indica Books. 7. ^Sharma, R. N. 1987–2003. The {{IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini}}. 6 vols. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. VASU, S. C. 1891–98. The {{IAST|Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini}}, edited and translated into English. 2 vols. Allahabad: The Panini Office. 8. ^1 Söhnen, Renate. 1995. “On the Concept and Presentation of ‘yamaka’ in Early Indian Poetic Theory”. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 58. No. 3 p 495–520. 9. ^Narang, Satya Pal. 2003. An Analysis of the {{IAST|Prākṛta}} of Bhāśā-sama of the {{IAST|Bhaṭṭi-kāvya}} (Canto XII). In: Prof. Mahapatra G.N., Vanijyotih: Felicitation Volume, Utkal University, *Bhuvaneshwar. 10. ^Hooykaas, C. 1958. The Old Javanese {{IAST|Rāmāyaṇa}}, an Exemplary Kakawin as to Form and Content. Amsterdam. 11. ^Hooykaas, C. 1957. “On Some {{IAST|Arthālaṃkāras}} in the {{IAST|Baṭṭikāvya}} X”. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies: Vol. 20, No 3, Studies in Honour of Sir Ralph Turner, Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1937–57, London: SOAS. References{{More footnotes|date=January 2009}}
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