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

212 EXPLANATORY NOTES
speech known as रूपक applies to both शङ्कर and क्षीरसिन्धु which have
several adjectives each with two meanings. This is the special
feature of a particular poet. The same idea finds expression in
the work of a later poet in the second verse, though only
one word शङ्करक्षीरसिन्धवे is borrowed from the former verse. The
reading नाप्रत्यभिज्ञायातः as found in the A and B MSS, however, gives
quite a different meaning, and this is almost diametrically oppo-
site to the meaning given above. According to this the sentence
should be construed as :—
अप्रत्यभिज्ञायातः पादोऽपि न परिहरणीयः । तस्यापि साम्ये न किञ्चन दुष्टं स्यात् ।
That being the case, the pāda इत्युक्तवान् etc, is not to be
considered as an instance of actual borrowing. The reading of
the C. MS, is adopted here because of the context in which Rāja-
śekhara particularly refutes the view of the Ācāryas who maintain
that for the purposes of plagiarism the number of words should be
more than three. It may be noted here that the pāda इत्युक्तवान्
etc. has only three words and according to the Ācāryas this is not
an example of plagiarism. But Rājaśekhara thinks that this
also is to be avoided.
ll. 15–25. Here also Rājaśekhara rejects the view held by
the Ācāryas. The line may be construed as अन्यथात्वकरणकारणं पादः नैव
हरणम् । अपि तु स्वीकरणम् । The same pāda त्यागो हि सर्वव्यसनानि हन्ति used in
the first verse in praise of त्याग is quoted in the next verse in order
to denounce it. The verse त्यागो हि सर्वव्यसनानि हन्तीत्यलीकमेतत्. etc is
attributed to S'ūdraka in the Subhāṣitāvali but it cannot be traced
to his Mṛcchakaṭika. The Ācāryas hold that this is not an
example of plagiarism, but only an adaptation of a pāda from
an earlier verse by a later writer. Rājaśekhara's view is that
such adaptations without acknowledgment also are to be avoided.
Page. 59.
ll. 1–6. Rājaśekhara exemplifies here another instance of
plagiarism. Here, out of the two halves of the verse, the first half
पादस्ते नरवर etc, is taken over bodily and the second is changed by a
later writer. सीवनी=a line connecting the scrotum and anus.
*[ l. 8. तत्तावदेव attributed to प्रकाशदत्त ।
l. 17. अरण्ये निर्जने, Subhāṣitāvali (No. 555). ]