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

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of Bhuvanakośa as enumerated in the first chapter p. 2. l. 4 and
which now seems to be lost. According to that statement:
भुवनकोशः । इति कविरहस्यं प्रथममधिकरणम् इत्यादि । Bhuvanakośa seems to be
the last subject dealt with in this Adhikaraṇa. There is another
passage also:
इत्थं देशविभागो मुद्रामात्रेण सूत्रितः सुधियाम् ।
यस्तु जिगीषत्यधिकं पश्यतु मद्भुवनकोशमसौ ॥
(Kāvyamīmāṁsā p. 98. ll. 8-9.)
which confirms the above view. Some scholars hold that the
Bhuvanakośa is a separate treatise of Rājaśekhara, but this does
not appear to be correct for reasons already cited. It is, there-
fore, to be concluded that the last portion of the Kavirahasya
dealing with the Bhuvanakośa as well as the other 17 Adhikaraṇas
of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā, as enumerated in the first chapter 'शास्त्रसङ्ग्रह'
of this work, have been entirely lost. Very probably, the reason
why this extent portion alone out of the bulky volume of 18
Adhikaraṇas of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā has been preserved in the Jain
Bhandars of the Patan town in the territory of Baroda Raj, is that
the greater portion of this section is borrowed by the great Jain
Ācāryas such as Hemacandrācārya, Vāgbhaṭa and Māṇikyacandra
in their Kāvyānuśāsanas and in the commentary on the Kāvya-
prakāśa and, therefore, to prove the authenticity of the writings of
their Ācāryas, the later Jain scholars might have taken more care
to preserve this portion alone; or, it is also quite possible that only
the extant portion of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā was available when the
Jain Bhandār Libraries were being organized. Another plausible
explanation is that probably Rājaśekhara did not live to complete
his Kāvyamīmāṁsā which was projected in 18 Adhikaraṇas—a
very ambitious scheme, and the chapters available to-day is the
portion which he could complete during his life-time.