তপোবন | Tapoban

INTRODUCTION. 5 of some relieving traits or imparting to the whole a softer shade of colouring. While the copies of his successors are only dull and feeble imitations of the original always spoilt by disproportionate diffuseness of. descriptions or speeches. They had no sense of harmony or proportion and almost all their works may be improved by the pruning of superfluities and even by complete elimination of entire cantos. This shows how slowly the action moves and how the epic interest of the works is subordinated to a mania for description. With the only exception of Bhavabhuti, these authors devoid of any poetic intuition tried to produce poems by a blind adherence to the rules of rhetoric and their works have no breathing beauty of life but are mummies or anatomical models to be kept as literary curiosities in museums. Even Bharavi who had more natural feeling and a better sense of proportion than Magha or Sriharsha was so enchained by the rhetorical account of a Mahakavya that in a heroic poem of eighteen cantos he devotes two entire cantos (.cantos IV. and V. ) to the description of autumn andthe Himalaya‘ and four cantos ( VIL—X. ) to the description of the celestia] nymphs «sent by Indra to tempt Arjuna and their amorous dalliance and sports, while the feats of. valour. of Arjuna: and..bis mighty antagonist are 1908 to be dealt with only in the last seven cantos, ০০৩ of which | (canto XV..) ie devotad to: vations. kinds -of Chitra Beans J ia: wl verbal siogeauity: at: ৬০ ল্য লে দা ‘ thes: ‘carrying