Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 14 MB

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DISCOVERY THROUGH RESTORATION 311 Hari is marching against Indra to secure the celestial Parijata tree with a view to placating Satyabhama's jealous anger. Dandin in his Avantisundari (verse 12 at the beginning) refers to King Sarvasena and his epic poem Harivijaya. This reference must have been made out of admiration, no doubt. Anandavardhana admires Sarvasena, along with Kalidasa, for effecting changes in the story adopted from the Itihasas to suit the intended rasa8. Abhinavagupta adds in his Locana commentary that the incidents of the wedding of Aja, etc., described in the epic, Raghuvamsa, were invented by Kalidasa which were not found in the Itihasas; and the emotive motivation of placating the jealous anger of Satyabhama by securing the Parijata tree from Indra's garden, and centering the entire story round the rivalry of the two wives of HariSatyabhama and Rukmini--was invented by Sarvasena in his Harivijaya, although not found in the Itihasas. This change in the emphasis is poetically effective; it makes the poem humanly appealing and emotionally rich, Anandavardhana's remark about Sarvasena's originality and genius with specific reference to this motifkantanunayanangatvena parijataharanadi, as explained by Abhinavagupta, shows how he discusses the whole epic from the standpoint of how the author deals with the rasa, which constitutes the very life--forms the very essence-of the epic. This then is a brief account of my work of restoration of many corrupt readings, verses and passages from the works on Sanskrit Poetics, and of the discovery of invaluable portions of Abhinavabharati of Abhinavagupta and Harivijaya of Sarvasena through restoration. I have done. I thank you all for giving me a patient hearing. Notes and References : 1. Cf. The Natyasastra of Bharatamuni with the commentary Abhinavabharati, Chs. I-VII, edited by M. Ramakrishna Kavi, 2nd edn, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1956, p. 63. 2. 3fed area Filhosfe an : 114dUai corel #1444014 11 -- Natyasastra XXII. 10 3. Restoration of the text of some corrupt... citations.. in Kuntaka's Vakroktijivita, Journal, Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volumes 52-53, 1981, P. 53. 4. Bhoja's Srngara Prakasa by Dr. V. Raghavan, Punarvasu, 7 Sri Krishnapuram Street, Madras--14, P. 825, See also : Indian Kavya Literature, Volume Three, A. K. Warder, The Early Medieval Period, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi 1977, PP. 62-63.