काव्यमीमांसा (महाकवि राजशेखर - कवि-रहस्य एवं देश-विभाग सटीक)

be construed with the word यस्य. The first half of the verse should,
therefore, be construed as: यस्य कथासर्गः न नीचैः, अथ न प्रतिभाक्षयः
स कविग्रामणीः ।
According to the reading available in Ms A, however, the
construction will be as follows:—
यस्य ( कवेः ) अर्थकथासर्गे ( गीं ) न नीचैः, ( यस्य ) न प्रतिभाक्षयः स कविग्रामणीः ।
This construction also gives a good sense inasmuch as the
अर्थ and कथा developed by a poet through his power of imagination
and described in the last two verses, are the subject-matter
of this Śloka. The only defect in this reading is that the two
words नीचैः and प्रतिभाक्षयः do not sound well. An emendation may be
suggested giving a better sense as:—नवीनार्थकथासर्गे यस्य न प्रतिभाक्षयः ।
स कविग्रामणीः । but this emendation is not supported by any of the
Mss available.
ll. 9–13. A knowledge of different sciences and common
practices is considered necessary for poets by later writers such as
Kṣemendra, Hemacandra, Vāgbhaṭa and Vinayacandra who have
included several varieties under the heading of Prakīrṇaka. But
Rājaśekhara illustrates only four kinds of them and suggests several
more worthy of being known by poets, saying : एवं प्रकीर्णकान्तरमपि ।
On Hastiśikṣā, for instance, the verse मेघानां etc. is quoted here
as an illustration. Here the well-known habit of elephants while
bathing in the river is correctly observed in the description of
Irāvaṇa’s throwing up water.
*[ l. 18. स दक्षिणापाङ्ग ( कुमारसंभव. III. 70. ) ]
Page. 41.
*[ l. 2. पाण्ड्योऽयमंसार्पित. ( रघुवंश VI. 60 )
ll. 1–5. These last four additional sources for the theme of
poetry, introduced by Rājaśekhara for the first time, are not
referred to by any of the later writers, though the other twelve
sources are quoted sometimes with the same illustrations as given
by our author. It is not, however, easy to surmise how these
four principles उचितसंयोग etc. are considered as काव्यार्थयोनि by
Rājaśekhara. But it is clear that Rājaśekhara has shown by
these four illustrations the four methods of description. उचितसंयोग
is ‘the appropriate connection ( of things )’.
ll. 6–9. युक्तसंयोगः=the connection of a thing already descri-
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