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

NINTH ADHYĀYA 187
Karṇa and the serpent Aśvasena. Aśvasena who was an enemy
of Arjuna entered the quiver of Karṇa without his knowledge in
the form of a serpent-mouthed arrow. When once Karṇa failed
to slay Arjuna with that arrow, the serpent Aśvasena requested
Karṇa to charge his bow with the same arrow again. But Karṇa
refused. This last part of the episode is stated in this verse. For
further details see Mahābhārata Karṇa-Parva. 90. Out of the two
words आर्द्रावले and अपकर्ण used as epithets of the serpent, the signifi-
cance of the first word is unknown, while the second अपकर्ण denotes
that the serpents are devoid of ears. हरशिष्य is Bhārgava Paraśu-
rāma and Karṇa is his disciple.
मर्त्यैः । This shows that the arrows of the earth also are capable
of achieving the same object as those of the nether regions.

Page. 44.
l. 1. इहापि etc. The four sub-divisions of the दिव्यमानुष group
referred to on page 42. l. 9 are said to be applicable in the case of
the मर्त्यपातालीय group also.
ll. 7–10. In this verse, events connected with persons belonging
to the three worlds are described. For the story of Āstīka, the
sage who protected the serpents Takṣaka and others from being
destroyed in the sacrificial fire of king Janamejaya, see the Āstīka-
parva, a sub-section in the Ādiparva of the Mahābhārata.
उद्वेल्लत्=shaking or moving.
*[l. 13. विचारितसुस्थः cf. तत्र दशविधश्चमत्कारः अविचारितरमणीयः विचार्यमाण-
रमणीयश्च (कविकण्ठाभरण. Sandhi III.)]
ll. 12–14. Followers of Udbhaṭa classify the subject matter of
literature under two varieties : विचारितसुस्थ and अविचारितरमणीय and
hold that the Śāstric literature deals with the former, while the
latter is the subject of kāvya. Probably Udbhaṭa must have
expressed this view in his commentary on Bhāmaha's theory as
recorded by him in the two verses quoted below :
तज्ज्ञैः काव्यप्रयोगेषु तत्रादुष्कृतमन्यथा ।
तत्र लोकाश्नयं काव्यमागमाः तत्त्वदर्शिनः ॥
असिसंकाशमाकाशं शब्दो दूरादुपैत्ययम् ।
तदेव वापी(रि)सिन्धूनामहो स्थेमा महर्चिषः ॥
Bhāmaha's Kāvyālaṅkāra 5, 33–34.
*[l. 17. त ·आकाशमसिस्त्यामं ( कुमार. VI. 36 ).]