2. CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 MAHAKAVYA Kalāpūrņodayam and its reception - Mahākāvya - Bhämaha's definition - Dandin's view - Nannecoda's conception - The echoes of Vdyanatha and Vinnakota Peddana - Visvanatha's epitomisation - Critical exmination of the definition of the Mahakāvya. pp. 1- 12.

CHAPTER 2 THE STORY OF KALĀPŪRŅÖDAYAM IN OUTLINE pp. 13 - 26.

CHAPTER 3 THE SO-CALLED SOURCES Kādambari and Kalāpūmodayam - Comparison - The former not a source - Prabodhacandrodaya - Markandeya Purāņa - The story of Madalasa - The four episodes in the Mahabharata - Narada's conflict with Tumburu as described in the Lingapurana - Consideration of the Manuchantra and the Sri-kalahasti- mâhātmyam as sources and their refutation - Kathāsaritsagara of Somadeva and its influence on Surana - The opening story in the Kathasantsagara - comparison - the story of Sridatta - The story of the Unfaithful Wife - The story of Süryaprabha - Influ- ences of the Kathasarıtsagara on the Kalāpūrņodayam in general - Āscaryacūdamanı of Saktı- bhadra as an influence - Other rea- sons in suport of the originality of the poem. pp. 27 - 61.

CHAPTER 4 THE THREE ALLEGORIES AND THEIR REFUTATION The philosophical allegory and the reasons for its refuta- tion- The erotic allegory and the causes for its untenability - The historical allegory, only an illusion - Allegory, slesa and dhvani distinguished. pp. 62 - 74.

CHAPTER 5 SURANA AND HIS CRITICS An approach to literature - Dr. C. R. Reddi's attacks - His remarks about the manihara untenable - The question of prob- ability - assaults against the latter part of the poem unreason- able. pp. 75 - 110

CHAPTER 6 POSITIVE MERITS OFTHE KALAPURNODAYAM Surana's characters definite, concrete and human - Narada - Manikandhara - Kalabhasini - Sugatrı - Manistambha alias Salina - Caturmukha and Sarasvati. pp. 111 - 148.

CHAPTER 7 POSITIVE MERITS OFTHE KALAPURNODAYAM (Contd ) The significant background - Nāmavakrata - Structural beauties - The beauties of presentation. pp. 149 - 175.

CHAPTER 8 KALAPURNODAYAM AS A MAHAKAVYA The five sandhis and the sixty-four sandhyangas - The var- ous descriptions to be found in the poem - The rasas. pp. 176 - 194.

CHAPTER 9 ON THE MEANING OF THE POEM Complete emergence of art - The central idea of the poem - Reasons for such a theory - The highly complicated nature of the poem - References to the nature of poetry and phalasruti - Manikandhara's antecedents and subsequent activities - The names of Manistambha and Sumukhasatti, their native country and their family deity - The episode of Sarasvati and Caturmukha - the names of Kalapurna, Abhinavakaumudı, Madhuralālasa, Suprasäda and Sarasa - Introducing tenets of philosophy - The poet's ardent hope of getting publicity for his poem through the co-operation of Sastravyasanatıdhanyas - The very title of the poem. - pp. 195 - 213