काव्यालङ्कार (आचार्य भामह - भारतीय काव्यशास्त्र एवं अलङ्कार-सिद्धान्त मूल महाग्रन्थ सटीक)

122 BHĀMAHĀLAṄKĀRA
Poetics. This Medhāvin has been already referred
to as the propounder of the seven उपमादोषs in Verse
40 infra. This verse as given above represents the
reading based on manuscripts. It is adopted in
Trivedi's edition in the Appendix to Pratāparudra-
yaśobhūshaṇa, in the Chowkhamba edition and in
Mr. Naganatha Sastri's edition. Mr. D. T. Tata-
charya has changed the reading of the second half
of the verse into संख्यानमिति मेधावी नोत्प्रेक्षाभिहिता क्वचित्. He
bases his suggestion on the following extract from
Daṇḍin. यथासंख्यमिति प्रोक्तं संख्यानं क्रम इत्यपि. We have
however followed the reading based on manuscripts
and adopted by a majority of learned editors in
view of the fact that such an important Alaṁkāra
as Utprekshā is not likely to be ignored by any
writer in Poetics.
यथासंख्यालंकारः (10)
भूयसामुपदिष्टानांमर्थानामसधर्मणाम् ।
क्रमशो योऽनुनिर्देशो यथासंख्यं तदुच्यते ॥ ८९ ॥
89. Where several objects varying in quality
are mentioned at first, a subsequent treatment relat-
ing to them in the same order amounts to Yathā-
saṅkhya.
89. This verse defines Yathāsaṅkhya. In it
a number of objects are mentioned at first and in
the same order a different set of objects is subse-