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

188 EXPLANATORY NOTES
ll. 15-19. Three examples are given here to illustrate Ud-
bhaṭa's theory of काव्यार्थ but not of शास्त्रार्थ. In the first two verses
the colour of ether is described as blue like a blue lotus and like
that of a sword, though really ether is devoid of any colour.
सदैव वारि सिन्धूनाम् । etc. The second half of Bhāmaha's verse
(5-34) is quoted here as the third example. The readings वापीसिन्धूनां
or वापिसिन्धूनां as found in the editions of the Bhāmaha's Kāvyālaṅkāra
may be read as वारि सिन्धूनां which seems to be the correct reading.
Here it is said that the water of all rivers is always the same and
that the heavenly lights such as the moon and the stars are wonder-
fully fixed in their proper places. Followers of Udbhaṭa hold that
these descriptions are अविचारितरमणीय because in reality ether has no
colour and water of all rivers is not the same at all times and the
heavenly bodies also are not fixed in one place, and also because on
scientific examination ether is found to be without any colour while
the stars are also found moving from place to place.
ll. 20-25. Yāyāvarīya does not agree with the view of Aud-
bhaṭas because they hold that the Kāvyas only describe unreal
aspects of things, and this means that the Kāvyas are valueless.
He holds, therefore, that the authors of both S'āstras and Kāvyas
describe objects as observed by them.
Page. 45.
ll. 1-2. Following the rules of Vyākaraṇa and Alaṅkāra śāstras
here the simile between the moon and swan, stars and Kumudas, sky
and water, cloud and mud, is given. This is a description of the
moon which shines on a clear sky with stars but appears as a swan
moving on the surface of a lake where there are many lotuses.
*[l. 8. यस्तु सरिदद्रि. Quoted in Hemacandra's काव्यानुशासन. under
लोल्लट:—“तथा च लोल्लटः—
यस्तु सरिदद्रिसागरनगतुरगपुरादिवर्णने यत्नः ।
कविशक्तिख्यातिफलो विततधियां नो मतः प्रबन्धेषु ॥
यमकानुलोमतदितरचक्रादिभिदोऽतिरसविरोधिन्यः ।
अभिमानमात्रमेतद्गड्डरिकादिप्रवाहो वा ॥” p. 215.]
ll. 3-9. Āparājiti who seems, in all probability, to be a follower
of the Rasa school of Bharata advises poets not to indulge in a
lengthy description of the rising sun or the moon etc. because it
is likely to obstruct a natural outflow of Rasas in the minds of the