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THE EQUIPMENT OF THE POET 351

manifests in great poets special imagination which is uncommon) remarks that the speciality of a great poet's imagination consists in the ability to produce poetry that is endowed with beauty and clarity due to the onrush of emotional thrill in the heart. Vide Annals B. O. R. I. vol. V for M. M. Gopinath Kaviraja's learned article on 'the doctrine of Pratibha in Indian Philosophy', I. H. Q. vol. 13 pp. 58-84 on 'Imagination in Indian Poetics' (by Prof. T. N. Shrikantayya). It has to be remembered that even the reader of the best poetry must have a modicum of imagination and culture in order to enjoy aesthetically the poet's outpourings, as said in 'नायकस्य कवे: श्रोतुः समानोनुभवस्ततः' (लोचन cited above on p. 220) or 'न जायते तदास्वादो विना रत्यादिवासनाम्' साहित्यदर्पण III. 9. ageufa dose not present much difficulty. There is theore- tically no subject which the poet may not handle and therefore a certain modicum of culture is necessary for him if he is to appeal to the hearts of his contemporaries and to future genera- tions. The नाट्यशास says 'न तज्जानं' 21, 122 quoted above on p. 35 n2; 'छन्दोव्याकर णकलालोकस्थितिपदपदार्थविज्ञानाद्। युक्तायुक्तविवेको व्यु- त्पत्तिरियं समासेन ।I' रुद्रट I. 18, हेमचन्द्र p. 5 'लोकशास्त्रकाव्येषु निपुखता व्युत्पत्तिः'. काव्यमी. 5th chap. which contains very useful infor- mation about शात्तरकवि, काव्यकवि and उभयकवि and their sub-divisions (p.17) states ten stages of कवित्व (p. 19). The सुवृत्ततिलक of चेमेन्द्र (K. M. ed.) has another division of Literature in general : शास्त्रं काव्यं शास्त्रकाव्यं काव्यशास्त्रं च भेदतः । काव्यं विशिष्टशब्दार्थसाहित्यसद- लङ्कृति। शास्त्रकाव्यं चतुवगप्रायं सर्वोपदेशकृत्। तत्र केवलशास्त्रेपि केचित्काव्यं प्रयुअते॥ 2-4. An example of शास्त्रकाव्य is भट्टिकाव्य. The Pali texts also have such divisions of poets. The Anguttara Nikāya speaks of four kinds of kavi viz. चिन्ताकवि, सुतकवि (श्रुतकवि), अत्थकवि and पटिभानकवि (vol. II. p. 230 of Pali Texts Society's ed.) and the commentary मनोरथपूरखी (vol. III. p. 211) explains 'यो चिन्तेत्वा काव्यं करोति स चिन्ताकवि नाम यो सुत्वा करोति अयं सुतकवि नाम यो एकमत्थं निस्साय करोति अयं अत्थकवि। यो तं खं येव बंगीसथेरो विथ अत्तनो पटिभानेन करोति अयं पटिभानकवि नाम'. The साहित्यमीमांसा (Tri. ed.) mentions four ingredients in the making of a poet viz. श्रम, नियोग, क्लेश, प्रतिभा (vide p. 281 above for quotation). On this subject of 'the making of the Sanskrit poet' vide Dr. Thomas in Bhandarkar Commemoration vol. pp. 375-376 and Prof. Kalicharan Shastri on 'Requisites of a poet' in