उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

XVI INTRODUCTION
posed by भर्तृमेण्ठ or ईश्वरकृष्ण" If घनश्याम be right, this
would open up the question whether ईश्वरकृष्णमिश्र (कालिदास)
is the same as the author of the सांख्यकारिका We do not
wish to pursue this topic here
The commentary of Viraraghava is fuller than that of
Ghanasyama and is more helpful to the student He calls
himself in the colophons at the end of the Acts a descendant
of the family of Rama himself and came from a town called
भूमार or भूभिमार His family name was वाधूल He is later
than Ghanasyama and often criticises him, though without
naming him 46 He seems to be the same वीरराघव that com
mented on the महावीरचरित where his name is also given as
Annappangarya. There is a third commentary by Rama
chandrabudhendra, who seems to have been an inhabitant of
Benares This was printed in Telugu and Grantha characters.
On comparing it with the commentary in Vidyasagara's
edition we found to our surprise that the two agree
word for word, excepting a few verses at the beginning
of the commentary which are not found in Vidyasagara s
edition 47 This has caused us a great deal of perplexity
46 Vide p 141 "न विशीर्ये कठिना खलु स्त्रिय (IV 5) इति कुमारसंभवे
ईश्वरकृष्णमिश्रस्येव दयनीय," p 68 'महाप्रभातान्विरुदञ्चयम्' (रघु० II 26)
इति ईश्वरकृष्णमिश्र', p 3 'सव्यमरविन्दसुरभि' (शाकुन्तल) इति भर्तृमेण्ठस्य ' p 5
'अनुष्ठितानन्तरजा' इति (रघु० 7 32) भर्तृमेण्ठप्रयोगवत्,' it is to be noted
that the Pada 'ईन्वे हि यस्मा प्रजिनात्वश्च' (रघु० V 51) is once
(p. 30 text) cited as of भर्तृमेण्ठ and at p 76 as of भारद्वाजस्य
There are a few other quotations given under these names
from the कुमारसंभव and the रघुवंश vide p 129
47 Note 'केचित्तु पूज्येषु वन्दिष्वेव कवेरस्य गुणानानाद्य। गणाना त्व
गणयन्ति इवामहे इति श्रुतौ । इति शुकपराणमन्वी इति। तन्न बहुवचनस्यारम्भाङ्
compare this with our text p 3 'केचित्तु सुमानुषस्य सौजन्यस्य इत्याहु
compare text p 25 (on सुमानुषस्य in I 39), 'अत्र मुहु मुहु येभ्यो मुहुता
तथाविधाश्च ते पुण्यजना राक्षसाश्चेति ते। विभीषणादय इति कश्चित्' compare
text p 83, 'व्येन अमृत्नभरागति कवे प्रमाद इति वदन् व्याख्याता निरस्त',
compare text p 144
48 रामचन्द्रबुधेन्द्र commences his टीका as follows - वन्दामहे महा
लक्ष्मीमारूङ्गेङ्कङ्करम् । यस्य स्मरणमात्रेण सिध्यत्यर्थचतुष्टयम् ॥ १ ॥ श्रीरामचन्द्र
विदुषा विदुषां वरेण वाराणशीपुरनिवासपरान्तरेण। व्याख्यास्यते कृतिरसावतिशुद्धभाव
तुष्टये सतां विगतमत्सरमानमानाम् ॥ २ ॥ भवभूतिहृति केय काश्चिमन्वन्वर्णित ।