स्वप्नवासवदत्तम् (महाकवि भास - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी अनुवाद)

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already been examined for the Press, and the others are being gone
through. Thus Svapnavâsavadatta with the aid of the new manuscript
has assumed a complete form, and I feel fully rewarded for my pains
on this account. I am deeply indebted to Pandit Anantacharya for his
kindness in sending me his manuscript. When Svapnavâsavadatta was
just in the Press, another manuscript of it was secured from Krishnan
Tantri of Thazhaman Matham in Chengannur, and separate manu-
scripts of Pratijnâyaugandharâyana and of Abhishekanâtaka were also
obtained from the same source.
Doubtless, it is to this Svapnavâsavadatta of ours that Vandya-
Enquiry as to ghatîya Sarvânanda, who lived about 1159 A. D. of
Bhasa's age. the Christian era refers, when he, in his Amarakosa-
tîkâsarvasva, says in commenting on the Sloka,
“शृङ्गारवीरकरुणा” that “स्वदिशमात्मसात्कर्तुम् उदयनस्य पद्मावतीप-
रिणयोऽर्थशृङ्गारः स्वप्नवासवदत्ते, तृतीयस्तस्यैव वासवदत्तापरिणयः कामशृ-
ङ्गारः”. Âchâryâbhinavaguptapâda who lived in the 9th Century A. D.
speaks of Svapnavâsavadatta in his Bharatanâtyavedavivritti “क्वचित्
क्रीडा यथा स्वप्नवासवदत्तायाम्”. Therein another Nâtaka also is men-
tioned under the name of Daridrachârudatta. I think that it is our
Chârudattanâtaka.
Vâmana who flourished long before Ânandavardhana, the author
of Dhvanyâloka of the 9th century A. D., quotes in the second Adhyâya
of the fifth Adhikarana of his Kâvyâlankârasûtravritti, the following
sloka which occurs in the fourth Act of Svapnavâsavadatta:—
“शरच्छशाङ्कगौरेण वाताविद्धेन भामिनि ! ।
काशपुष्पप्लवेनेदं साश्रुपातं मुखं मम ॥”
In the very same Adhyâya is also quoted the passage, “यो भर्तृपिण्डस्य
कृते न युध्येत्”, which is the fourth pâda of a certain sloka in the fourth
Act of Pratijnâyaugandharâyana. In the first Adhyâya of the fifth
Adhikarana of the same work is quoted the sloka,