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Fixing Up of Some Vairants From Kālidāsa
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cannot by dismissed lightly. Thus Vāmana, Anandavardhana, Bhoja, Mammata and Hemacandra to me, are greater authorities than any of the present day editors, no matter their high reputation and position. We know how ācārya Hemacandra's Kāvyānuśāsana with its priceless Viveka, has been a source of great inspiration in critically editing portions of the Abhinava-bhārati for scholars such as Gnoli and Kulkarni. So, the importance of these alaṁkāraworks is beyond dispute in this stupendous task of editing the works of Kālidāsa. Any intelligent and sincere editor, of course, will have to weigh all evidences critically.
We may note that Hemacandra (H. C.) has quoted 46 verses from Kumārasambhava (Kumāra.), 31 from Raghuvamsa (Raghu.), and eight each from the Abhijñāna-Śākuntalam (Abh. $ā), Vikramorvasiyam (Vikrama), and Meghadūta (Megha). He has not quoted either from the Mālavikāgnimitra (Māl.) or Rtusamhāra (Rtu.). Perhaps nobody has quoted from the work mentioned last. Bhoja has as many as 95 illustrations only from the Abh. Śā., and we have yet to count the total number of verses quoted by Bhoja from other works of Kälidāsa. Mammata has 11 from Kumāra., 6 from Raghu., 9 from Vikrama., 2 from Abh. Sä., and 1 from Megha., making a total of 29 verses.
To illustrate, we propose to concentrate on just five verses from Abh. Śā. only. They are :
(1) 7 fragajuotanto (2) PETT FE910 (3) 9145VHO
(4) 2611415i Efgo and (5) 374477 te falando
The method will be first to note available variants in the printed editions of the works of Vāmana, Ananda, Bhoja, Mammata and Hemacandra, along with their commentators, if any, and then also to note the variants as found in some important editions of the Abh. Śā. We have given a full list of all these editions of these works in Appendix A. The verses cited as illustrations occur in the works of authors mentioned against them, such as
(1) fagarjugacito is read by Vämana and Bhoja; (2) ETT HETTO
is read by Vāmana, Bhoja, Mammata and Hemacandra
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