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

SEVENTEENTH ADHYĀYA 253
It cannot, therefore, be definitely said that this verse कपोले etc.
formed part of the gunuine and the original Mahānāṭaka composed
earlier than the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. It is also possible that it
belonged to some other drama dealing with the Rāma-story which
was composed earlier than the Kāvyamīmāṁsā and later on added
to the Mahānāṭaka.
Construe this verse thus :-
जानक्याः करिकलभदन्तद्युतिमुषि कपोले स्फारोड्डमरपुलकं वक्त्रकमलं सरस्मेरःमुहुः पश्यन् etc.
Page. 98.
ll. 3-4. Rukmiṇī, the daughter of the king of Vidarbha,
is expected to be of black complexion as the Vidarbha country is
included in the southern India. But, here, she is described as गौर
or पाण्डु because she belonged to a royal family.
l. 5. एवमन्यदपि etc. Hemacandra quoted the whole chapter
upto this line without expressing his indebtedness to Rājaśekhara
but omited the two verses, निगदित etc in his Viveka.
ll. 6-9. It is said here that any description contrary to the
geographical peculiarities of any country is considered as a blemish
in composition and, therefore, poets are advised to be careful in
avoiding this Doṣa in their works.
cf. Bhāmaha 4,29-30; Daṇḍin 4,40-44 and Vāmana 2,2,23.
तदुदाहृतयस्तु दोषेषु । Instances of देशविरोध are illustrated by the
author in the chapter dealing with the blemishes of composition or
the 16th Adhikaraṇa of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. This passage also
shows that Rājaśekhara, intended to complete this Kāvyamīmāṁsā
in 18 Adhikaraṇas as enumerated in the first page of this work.
सूत्रितः । This word also indicates that the author's intention
was to write this work in the form of Sūtras on the model of the
Arthaśāstra and the Kāmasūtra.
मद्भुवनकोशम् । According to the list of subjects given on p. 2. l. 4.,
Bhuvanakośa seems to be the subject-matter of the last chapter
of this Adhikaraṇa कविरहस्य, and it immediately follows देशकालविभाग
of 17th and 18th chapters. But instead of that, Kālavibhāga is
treated as the last subject and the chapter-colophon also shows
that the first Adhikaraṇa कविरहस्य ends with the chapter on Kāla-
vibhāga. It may, therefore, be surmised that probably there were
some more Adhyāyas dealing with the Bhuvanakośa even after