उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

UTTARARĀMACHARITA. VII
6. Vāmana in his Kāvyālaṅkārasūtravṛtti quotes from
the works of Bhavabhūti.²³ This is not the place to discuss
the date of Vāmana.²⁴ He flourished in the latter half of
the 8th century A. D.
Thus from the eleventh century to the eighth there are
writers who name Bhavabhūti or quote from his works. For
want of space we refrain from giving quotations from a host
of other writers such as Mammaṭa and Ruyyaka.²⁴
There is evidence of a negative character that Bhava-
bhūti could not have flourished much earlier than 700 A. D.
In the first place though Bāṇa mentions a number of his
predecessors such as Kālidāsa, Pravarasena, Subandhu, he is
silent about Bhavabhūti. Bāṇa flourished in the first half of
the 7th century A. D. Moreover, we can detect traces of the
influence of Kālidāsa upon our poet. In the Mālatīmādhava
our poet makes the hero Mādhava address two verses to a
cloud as a messenger.²⁵ Those will remind any one of certain
verses of the Meghadūta composed in the same metre. The
fact that Bhavabhūti uses very long and involved compounds
especially in prose passages shows that he flourished at a time
23 The verse 'इयं गेहे लक्ष्मीः' (उत्तररामचरित I. ३९) is quoted as
an example of रूपक under काव्याल० IV. 3. 2. A verse from the
महावीरचरित (I. 38) is quoted as an example of the Gauḍī style
under काव्याल० I. 2. 12. The words दधन्मीलन्निमेषिम (occurring in
a verse of the नान्दी to the मालतीमाधव) are criticised under
काव्याल० V. 2. 18.
24 Vide Introduction to our edition of Kādambarī (Pūrva-
bhāga)
25 Vide note 30 below.
26 Verses 25 and 26 of Act IX.
'कच्चित्सौम्य प्रियसहचरी विद्युदालिङ्गति त्वामाविर्भूतप्रणयमधुरानुग्रहा मन्दमन्दा वा
नन्दन्ते। दीरख्या वा मुखयति मरुत्साधुमन्वाहनोऽन्विर्बध्नन्नग्रिन्न सुरपतिधनुन्त्स्न रत्नं
वदेतन् ॥ दैवात्परस्येत्यपि विवरन्मन्दिरा मालती चेदाश्वासाद्यं तरतु कथयैमाधवीदाम-
बन्धान्। आशातन्तुर्न च सपदनार्यन्तमुच्छेदनीयः प्राच्याश कथयपि करोत्यायताक्ष्याः
स एकः ॥'. Mark the following 'कश्चित्सौम्य व्यपगतशुचा बन्धुकृत्यं त्वया मे'
(उत्तरमेघ 53), 'दूराल्लक्ष्यं सुरपतिधनुश्चारुणा तोरणेन' (उत्तरमेघ 14), 'आशा-
बन्धः कुसुमसदृशं प्रायशो ह्यङ्गनानां सद्यःपाति प्रणयि हृदयं विप्रयोगे रुणद्धि'
(पूर्वमेघ 10).