वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

24 VĀSAVADATTĀ
that is no lover [cruel with passion ! red-eyed with lust ! alas, an
unlovely dame desireth thee, the essence of lovelessness, hot,
pitiless, absolutely no lover, (and) bound for utmost woe !]’ (ed.
Hall, pp. 213–214).
The vidhi, or ‘rule,’ is defined as follows by the Kuvalayānan-
dakārikā (I. 167) :
siddhasyāi "va vidhānaṃ yat tad āhur vidhyalaṃkṛtim,
‘what (is) a precept of a thing well established, that they call the
vidhi adornment,’ and is exemplified by kuraṅgikē kalpaya
kuraṅgaśāvakēbhyaḥ śaspāṅkuraṃ kiśōrikē kāraya kiśōrakēbhyaḥ
pratyavēkṣāṃ, ‘Kuraṅgikā, prepare a blade of young grass for
the antelope fauns ! Kiśōrikā, have the young colts looked after’ !
(ed. Hall, pp. 230–231).
The sambhāvana, or ‘supposition,’ is thus defined by the
Kuvalayānandakārikā (I. 125) :
sambhāvanaṃ yadī 'tthaṃ syād ity ūhō 'nyasya siddhayē,
‘sambhāvana is a conjecture for the attainment of something
else with the thought, “if it were so.”’ It is illustrated in the
Vāsavadattā by the passage tvatkṛtē yā "nayā vēdanā "nubhūtā
sā yadi nabhaḥ patrāyatē sāgarō mēlānandāyatē brahmāyatē
lipikarō bhujagarājāyatē kathakas tadā kim api katham apy
anēkāir yugasahasrāir abhilikhyatē kathyatē vā, ‘the pain that
hath been felt by this maiden for thy sake might be written or
told in some wise or in some way in many thousands of ages
if the sky became paper, the sea an ink-well, the scribe Brāhma,
(and) the narrator the Lord of Serpents’ (ed. Hall, pp. 238–239).
The kāraṇamālā, or ‘chain of causes,’ is given the following
definition in the Kuvalayānandakārikā (I. 103 ; cf. Kāvyaprakāśa,
tr. Jhā, p. 246, Benares, 1898) :
gumphaḥ kāraṇamālā syād yathāprakrāntakāraṇāiḥ,
‘a series (made) by causes proceeding one after the other is
a kāraṇamālā,’ and an example is seen by Śivarāma in the
description of Vāsavadattā’s palace as ajñātataṭasphāṭikapaṭ-
ṭasukhaniṣaṇṇanidrāyamāṇaprāsādapārāvatābhiḥ, ‘with palace