उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

UTTARARĀMACHARITA. XIII
in the text the reading of Ghanasyama the commentator
We, however, depart from the text of Ghanasyama, wherever
other readings appear better to us or in some cases in
prose passages. Out of the four editions mentioned above,
those of Vidyasagara and Mr Ghate are closely allied,
while Mr Kale generally follows the Nirnaya sagara
edition It will be seen that Ghanasyama's text also
is in most places the same as that of the Nirnaya sagara
edition As our object was to present a tolerably correct
text to the University student, we did not think it necessary
to note each and every variance among the several printed
editions and have not therefore collated a large number of
manuscripts The words of the text that are explained in
the commentary have been put in thick type in order to
draw the attention of the student. On each page of the text
is given the citation of the Act and the verse with which the
page end
VI Commentaries
The only commentaries available on this side of India
were that of Vīrarāghava issued by the Nirnayasagara press
and the one included in Vidyasagara's edition We have been
fortunate enough to secure a transcript of the commentary
of Ghanasyama through the kindness of Mr Varadachari,
Librarian of the Government Oriental Mss. Library at
Madras We are informed by Mr Ganapati Sastri of Trivan-
drum that there is another commentary at Trivandrum by
a pupil of Narayanabhatta.
A few remarks about Ghanasyama must be made here
He furnishes us with a good deal of information about him-
self in the introductory verses to his commentary and the
colophons at the end of the first and seventh Acts He
seems to have been a Maharashtra (Desastha) Brahmana
His surname was Chaunde (Chaunde?) He belonged to the
Mauna—Bhargava Gotra. His grandfather's name was
Balaji His mother and father were respectively called
Kashi and Mahadeva His maternal grand father was Timmaji
Balaji of the Kaundinya Gotra He was the younger brother
of Sakambhari and Chidambara, the latter of whom is
styled Paramahamsa. Ghanasyama had two wives, Sundari
and Kamala. In the introduction the author furnishes us