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PREFACE
Tripuradahana is one of the famous Yamaka poems
by the celebrated Paṭṭattu Vāsudeva Bhaṭtatiri, a very
gifted Sanskrit poet and grammarian who flourished in
Kerala circa 9th century A. D. Yamaka is a peculiar
literary device of repeating the same combination of letters
in different senses. It is defined as:-
अर्थ सत्यर्थभिनानां वर्णानां सा पुनःश्रुतिः ।
यमकं
11
........
(Kavyaprakāsa Ulläsa IX, 6.)
Although modern critics have not much regard
for the peculiar kind of ability displayed in Yamaka
kavya, it has to be conceded that only poets possessing
extraordinary command of diction can compose such kavya.
And Vasudeva Bhaṭtatiri remains almost without a rival
in this field in Sanskrit literature. The Yudhiṣṭhira-
vijaya published as No. 60 in the Kāvyamāla, is the best
•
Vide Mahakavi Ullur's History of Kerala Literature
Vol. I. P. 113-120.
Tripuradahana is one of the famous Yamaka poems
by the celebrated Paṭṭattu Vāsudeva Bhaṭtatiri, a very
gifted Sanskrit poet and grammarian who flourished in
Kerala circa 9th century A. D. Yamaka is a peculiar
literary device of repeating the same combination of letters
in different senses. It is defined as:-
अर्थ सत्यर्थभिनानां वर्णानां सा पुनःश्रुतिः ।
यमकं
11
........
(Kavyaprakāsa Ulläsa IX, 6.)
Although modern critics have not much regard
for the peculiar kind of ability displayed in Yamaka
kavya, it has to be conceded that only poets possessing
extraordinary command of diction can compose such kavya.
And Vasudeva Bhaṭtatiri remains almost without a rival
in this field in Sanskrit literature. The Yudhiṣṭhira-
vijaya published as No. 60 in the Kāvyamāla, is the best
•
Vide Mahakavi Ullur's History of Kerala Literature
Vol. I. P. 113-120.