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

262 EXPLANATORY NOTES
here only in a very concise form, and that the other characteristics of
the seasons, therefore, should be imagined by the poets themselves.
नामग्राहं कियद्ब्रूमः। The author regrets here his inability to deal
in detail with everything that he happened to know. This testifies
to his vast knowledge and his love of the subject. It may further
be said that there is no other work in the Sanskrit literature,
superior to this portion of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā on the subject
of the description of the different seasons. The inferiority of such
works as the Ṛtusaṁhāra will be quite apparent when it is
compared with this chapter.
ll. 12–13. Here the author advises other poets not to record
their observations indiscriminately in their compositions but to
adopt only the method followed by the early poets as their chief
guide while describing.
l. 14. Rājaśekhara wants to close this chapter on seasons
and their divisions after noting down two more points regarding
the flowers and fruits which also belong to the main theme of this
chapter. According to Rājaśekhara flowers are required to serve
six different functions, such as:—(1) शोभा beauty (2) अन्धस् food
(3) गन्ध smell (4) रस essence (5) फलम् fruits (6) अर्चनम् worship.
There is no seventh function to be served by them except to
wither and decay in the forest.
ll. 16–23. A period of four months is to be allowed by poets
while describing the process of transformation from a flower to a
ripened fruit. This period of four months refers only to the case
of the flowers of the trees and not to those of the creepers in which
case the period of maturity is two months only.
ll. 24–25. Here Rājaśekhara classifies fruits under six heads
according to their form. The word व्याज here means pretence.
In every fruit the kernel is hidden in the useless and rough skin
and this is what is known as pretence. This pretence also varies
in six ways by its position in the fruits, either inside or out-side
or in both places, and so on. All fruits are divided into six groups
following the nature of the pretence of the fruits.
Page. 112.
ll. 1–4. The fruit of the Lakuca tree has व्याज only in the
middle and all other portions of it are useful. This fruit may be
like the Ciku (चिकु) fruit of the present day.