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

TENTH ADHYĀYA 205
बुहयणसहस्ससद्दइयं हरिवंसुप्पत्तिकारयं पढमम् ।
वंदामि वंदियं पि हु हरिवंसं चेय विमलपयम् ॥
सन्निहियजिणवरिंदा धम्मकहा बंधदिक्खियनरिंदा ।
कहिया जेण सुकहिया सुलोयणा समवसरणं वा ॥
सत्तूण जो जसहरो जसहरचरिएहिं जणवए पयडो ।
कलिमलपभंजणो च्चिय पहुंजणो आसि रायरिसी ॥
जेहिं कए रमणिज्जे वरंगपउमाण चरियवित्थारे ।
कह व न सलाहणिज्जे ते कइणो जडियरविसेणो ॥
जो इच्छइ भवविरहं भवविरहंको न बंधए सुयणो ।
समयसयसत्थगहणो समरमिमंका कहा जस्स ॥
साहसाङ्क is विक्रमादित्य. ]
l. 7. सातवाहन । Sātavāhana or S'ālivāhana is a family name.
Several princes belonging to the Āndhrabhṛtya dynasty ruled the
Mahārāṣṭra country and bore the title of Sātavāhana. There
are several literary traditions connected with the Sātavāhana kings
who were recognized patrons of poets in Prākṛta languages,
such as Paiśācī, Mahārāṣṭrī etc. The Bṛhatkathā of Guṇāḍhya,
Kātantra grammar of Sarvavarman, and Gāthāsaptaśatī of Hāla-
Sātavāhana, were composed under the patronage of Sātavāhana
kings. For further information regarding the Sātavāhanas see
Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar's ‘The Early history of the Deccan’ and
Vols. XVI and XVIII of the J. B. O. R. S.
शूद्रक । S'ūdraka is well known as a king and the author of the
drama Mṛcchakaṭika. Several stories are recorded in the Bṛhat-
kathā where S'ūdraka plays an important part. The शूद्रककथा or the
biography of S'ūdraka has been written by two authors रामिल and
सौमिल conjointly. This fact is known only from a verse occurring in
the Sūktimuktāvalī, where it is attributed to Rājaśekhara. This
verse is given below:—
तौ शूद्रककथाकारौ रम्यौ रामिलसौमिलौ ।
काव्यं ययोर्द्वयोरासीदर्धनारीश्वरोपमम् ॥
Sūktimuktāvalī. p. 43.
One सौमिल is also mentioned by Kālidāsa in his Mālavikāgni-
mitra along with Bhāsa and Kaviputra and very probably he may
be the author of the शूद्रककथा । From the remark शूद्रकादिरचितेषु
प्रबन्धेषु occurring in Vāmana's Kāvyālaṅkārasūtra-Vṛtti (3-2-4,)
it appears that S'ūdraka had composed several other works in