Kavi Kaustubh

SR No.: 003431
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rajasthan Puratan Granthmala
Publisher: Rajasthan Puratan Granthmala
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 54
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 3 MB

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APPENDIX [Reprinted from the Poona Orientalist
Vol. VII, nos 3 and 4. pp. 157-164.] KAVI KAUSTUBHA, AN UNKNOWN WORK ON POETICS BY RAGAHUNATHA MANOHARA AND ITS CHRONOLOGY
BETWEEN A. D. 1675 AND 1700
S'ri P. K. Gode, M. A. Aufrecht mentions no work of the title कविकौस्तुभ. Dr. S. K. De's History of Sanskrit Poetics also contains no mention of any work of this title. Recently I came across a Ms. of this work through the favour of Vaidya Sivarāma Khāņdekar of Nasik. He was under the impression that this work was composed by his grand-father Rāghava Kavi' or Raghunāth Appā Khāņdekar of Punya-stambha or Puņtāmbe in the Ahmednagar District of the Bombay Presidency. On examination I find that the Ms. of afatenH is not a work of Rāghava Kavi but that it belonged to him as I find from the endorsement towards the end of the Ms.
As this work on rhetorics is unknown to Sanskritists I shall describe the present Ms. and determine the Chronology of its author Ragunātha Manohara. The Ms. begins :
"॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः॥ अथ काव्यप्रबंधानां शल्यरूपान्समासतः । दोषान्वक्ष्ये क्रमेणैव पूर्वाचायः प्रदर्शितान् ॥ १॥ छन्दोभ्रष्टं क्रियाव्यस्तं क्रमहीनमसंमितं । अपार्थ व्यस्तसंबंधं श्लिष्टागमविरोधि च ॥२॥ यतिभ्रष्टं तथा न्यूनपदं चैकार्थमेव च । व्यर्थ रीतिपरिभ्रष्टमवस्थादध्यभेदकम् ॥३॥ तथा देशकलान्यायकालहेतुविरोधिकं । खण्डिताधिपदे चैव तथा हीनोपमस्मृतम् ॥ ४ ॥ इति वाक्यात्मका दोषाः पददोषास्ततः क्रमात् । स्वसंकेतप्रक्लप्तार्थमप्रसिद्धमलक्षणम् ॥ ५॥ 'भगौरवं श्रुतिकटु पुनरुक्तिरसंमतं । व्याहतार्थ तथा ग्राम्य पददोषाः स्मृता यथा ॥ ६॥"
1. I am preparing a special paper on the unknown works of Raghave Kavi who flourished between A. D. 1758 and 1820 or so.
2. This MS contains 25 folios and is written on country paper. It is well preserved and appears to be about 150 years old. It contains the following post-colophon endorsement:
___ "पुस्तकमिदं खाण्डेकरोपनामक आपाजीपंतात्मज
रघुनाथनाम्नः सत्यं श्रीमत्पुण्यस्तम्भक्षेत्रे लिखापितम् ॥ श्रीलक्ष्मीवासुदेवार्पणमस्तु ॥" Many works of Raghava were composed and written at पुण्यस्तम्भक्षेत्र or Puntāmbe.