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

TENTH ADHYĀYA 207
Agnimitra with S'ūdraka is accepted, it should be assumed that
Agnimitra also had performed the Aśvamedha like his father,
had seen his son Vasumitra rule the country and entered into
the fire. The long age of 100 years and ten days attributed to
Śūdraka, is also not improbable in the case of Agnimitra because
according to the Mālavikāgnimitra, he was only a governor of the
southern provinces duriug his father's life-time, and he had at
that time a youthful son Vasumitra who was at the head of the
army and had followed the sacrificial horse of his grand-father.
Agnimitra, therefore, must have lived long enough to rule the
country after the lengthy reign of Puṣyamitra, and to see his son
Vasumitra installed after himself as king whose reign was for
some time interrupted by the rule of one Vasujyeṣṭha probably
Agnimitra's brother. Now the date of composition of the
Mṛcchakaṭika also falls, according to the above stated evidences,
somewhere in the beginning of the first century B. C. In this
connection, it may be said that the tradition, attributing the verse
लिम्पतीव तमोऽङ्गानि वर्षतीवाञ्जनं नभः । found in the Mṛcchakaṭika and quoted
by Daṇḍin in his Kāvyādarśa to one Vikramāditya on the autho-
rity of the Subhāṣitāvalī and the Sūktimuktāvalī, should not be
taken as correct because S'ūdraka or Agnimitra is not known to
have assumed the title of Vikramāditya.
l. 11. अवदंश=stimulant.
*[ll. 19-25. मेण्ठ is भर्तृमेण्ठ, author of the Hayagrīvavadha. See
Rājatarangiṇī 3-26. Verses from this poem are quoted in
the present work.
वक्रोक्त्या मेण्ठराजस्य वहन्त्या सृणिरूपताम् ।
आविद्धा इव धुन्वन्ति मूर्धानं कविकुञ्जराः ॥ राजशेखरः सूक्तिमुक्तावल्याम् ।
स कश्चिदालेख्यकरः कवित्वे प्रसिद्धनामा भुवि भर्तृमेण्ठः ।
रसप्लवेऽपि स्फुरति प्रकामं वर्णेषु यस्योज्ज्वलता तथैव ॥ उदयसुन्दरी ॥
Rājaśekhara calls himself an incarnation of भर्तृमेण्ठ.
बभूव वल्मीकभवः पुरा कविस्ततः प्रपेदे भुवि भर्तृमेण्ठताम् ।
स्थितः पुनर्यो भवभूतिरेखया स वर्तते सम्प्रति राजशेखरः ॥
बालरामायण. I. 16.
सूर may be आर्यसूर the Buddhist poet.
cf. also सुबन्धौ भक्तिर्नः क इह रघुकारे न रमते
धृतिर्दाक्षीपुत्रे हरति हरचन्द्रोऽपि हृदयम् ।