काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

FOREWORD
The famous English “Translation” of Kavya-Prakāsha by late
Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Sir Ganganatha Jha had been out of print
for the last several years and the scholars from all over the world
have been persistently craving for its re-issue. The same is being
done with the concurrence of Dr. Adityanath Jha, Vacaspati, I. C. S.
Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi, the only surviving son of the illus-
trious translator.
Although Sir Ganganatha Jha called his work merely a translation
in all humility, it is really a highly learned commentary as well, since
attempt has been made here not only for reproduction in English
of the Sanskrit text and commentary, but also towards their further
elucidation, and for this the illustrious savant has supported his
stand by references to different authorities and by providing supple-
mentary notes. Although the work, as published hitherto, did not
contain the text in the present edition the same has been added for
the convenience of the readers. Dr Jha had said in the previous
editions that he had followed the text of Vāmanī, but at so many places
it is not so, and so effort has been made to present the readings as
followed by the learned translator, and not that by Vāmanāchārya.
In the meantime a copy of the manuscript of the Kāvya Prakāsha-
Kārikā was discovered in the Saraswati Bhavana Library, Varanasi.
Its opening stanza is significant in as much as it mentions expressly
that Mammata was the Vṛttikāra, without mentioning about his
being the author of the Kārikā In addition the stanza, in which
Śānta is mentioned as a Rasa ( 31 ), is missing in this manuscript.
The writer of this manuscript has in another stanza, where Śānta
( 26 ) is mentioned in other manuscripts, a text that does not have
the word śānta. In the present edition not only the Kārikās have been
reproduced, but the readings where this manuscript differs from
those of Vāmanāchārya have also been mentioned.
While effort has been made to preserve the method of trans-
cription of the translator, a deviation has been made, especially in
respect of the anusvāra. Dr. Jha had m for both म and anusvāra, but