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8666 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF No. 12893. dhvanyalokavyakhyanam - locanam . DHVANYALOKAVYAKHYANAM : LOCANAM. Substance, paper. Size, 11 x 8 inches. Pages, 387. Lines, 20 on page. Character, Devanagari. Condition, good. Appearance, new. Complete in four Uddyotas. A commentary on the Dhvanyaloka (also called Kavyaloka or Sahrdayahrdayaloka) of Rajanaka Anandavardhanacarya, which is a rhetorical treatise specially dealing with Dhvani. The author of the commentary which is styled Locana is Abhinavaguptacarya, pupil of Bhattarajondu. The commentator considers himself to have been purified by the dust of Siddhicola's foot. The work Dhvanyaloka with its commentary Locana for Uddyotas one to three has been printed and published in the Kavyamala Series. Beginning : apurvam yadvastu prathayati vina karanakalam jagaddbhavaprakhyam nijarasabharatsravayati ca | kramatprakhyopakhyaprasarasubhagam bhasayati tat sarasvatyastacvam kavisahrdayakhyam vijayate || mahendra (ndu ) rajacaranabjakrtadhivasa- hrdyasruto'bhinavaguptapadabhidho'ham || yatkincidapyanuranan sphutayami kavya- lokam svalocananiyojanaya janasya || svayamapyu (vyu )cchinnaparamesvaranamaskarasampatticaritartho'pi vyakhyatrsrotrna- mapi avighnenabhista sravanalaksanaphalasampattaye samucitasih prakatanadvarena paramesvarasam- mukhyam karoti vrttikarah - svecchetyadina | madhuripoh nakhah (vah ) yusman vyakhyatrsrotrn trayantam | tesameva sambodhanayogyatvat | sambodhanasaro hi yusmadarthah | tranam cabhistaphalalabham prati sahayakacaranam | tacca tatpratidvandvi- vighnapasaranadina bhavatiti | atha pradhanyenabhidheyasvarupamabhidadhadapradhanataya prayojanaprayojanam tatsamba- ndham prayojanam ca samarthyatprakatayan adivakyamaha - kavyasyatmeti | kavya- smasabdasamnidhanat budhasabdo'tra kavyatmavabodhanimittaka ityabhiprayena vitu- noti - kavyataccavidbhiriti |