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

of the first verse has two meanings. The first is: how one who
favours low class people can make use of me. The second is:
how one without hunger can make use of the mutton. These
two meanings are made possible from the combination of the word
मां and the letter सो (मांसोपयोगम्=मां सोपयोगम्। क्षुत् रहितः=क्षुद्रहितः।). From
this combination, a part मां is borrowed by another poet in the next
verse and combined with सरसं to express the identical meanings as
shown above (मांसरसम्=मां सरसम्।).
ll. 20-27. Here the word निरवधीरितम् has two meanings:
(1) 'repelled' and (2) 'unlimited spreading'. These two senses
are expressed with reference to (1) the army of the Asuras and
(2) the fame of Baladeva. The word हल in the first line may be
read as बल and the words आसुर and अपारपयोनिधिविस्तृतम् may be connected
with that as adjective. The same word निरवधीरितम् and the two
other words आकुल and आसुर which also have two meanings owing
to श्लेष with reference to the army and fame in the first verse,
are borrowed in the next verse which forms an example of यमक
and expresses the same sense.
Page. 57.
ll. 1-4. Here the word कर्णायतेक्षणम् is श्लिष्ट and as such this
line bears the following two meanings: (1) the crowd of
paramours is behaving for the moment in the same manner as
Karṇa and (2) the face of the lady has eyes long up to her ears.
The same word कर्णायतेक्षणम् is borrowed in the next verse to
supply an answer to the three questions put forth in the same
verse. The first two questions are "what does the paramour do in
the house of a prostitute and for what time?" The answer is:
कर्णायते, क्षणम्. He acts as Karṇa and for a moment. The third
question is "what kind of face he looked at?" The answer is
कर्णायतेक्षणम् i. e. the eyes of which are long enough to reach the ears.
*[l. 6. वरदाय नमो हरये पतति जनो यं etc. occurs as the first verse
in वृन्दावनयमककाव्य of मानाङ्क.
l. 8. चक्रं दहतारम् (रुद्रटकाव्यालङ्कार. III. 4.)].
ll. 5-10. Rājaśekhara's suggestion that Rudraṭa in his verse
चक्रं दहतारम् etc. borrowed words from the Mānāṅka's verse वरदाय नमो
हरये etc, makes it probable that the poet Mānāṅka the author of
the Vṛndāvanayamakakāvya (printed in the Kāvyasaṅgraha by
Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara) flourished before Rudraṭa (cir. 850-900).