Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 01

SR No.: 006959
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 1988
Total Pages: 790
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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Chapter VII Prakrit Verses In Sarasvati-Kanthabharana'
af no mean achievements. (SP) must have, been C1030_1050 A. D.
"Bhoja was one of the most illustrious kings of ancient and medieval India. He was justly famed as a great patron of poets and Literature, as a great builder of temples and as a literary man of no mean achievements. His two works on poetics, " Sarasvatikanthabharana" (SKA) and Sringaraprakasa, (SP) must have, been composed between 1005-1054, probably towards the close of Bhoja's career i. e. between 1030-1050 A. D.3. "It is generally accepted that the first work of Bhoja in Alamkāra is the SKA." It contains over 350°Prakrit verses (including illustrations in Apabhramsa). However, as SP is a largery work containing over 1650 Prakrit and Apabhramsa verses, it is given precedence in the present study.
SK A ) and Śringarahents. His two works at builder of temple
1005-1054. pro
1) Samkirnam (vākyam) yatha......
(pp. 21-22, v. 30) काअं खाअइ खुहिओ करं फेल्लेइ/धल्लेइ णिब्भरं रुट्ठो। सुणअं गेण्हइ कंठे हक्केअइ/हक्केइ अ णत्तिकं ठेरो॥ (काकं खादति क्षुधितः कूरं ( = भक्तं) क्षिपति निर्भर रुष्टः । शुनकं गृह्णाति कण्ठे निषेधति ( = भेषयति) नप्तारं स्थविरः ॥)
better, we find in Hemacandra's
The alternative readings, which are decidedly Kavyānusasana (p. 215, v. 256).
2) Apadam (vākyam) yathā......
(p. 22, v. 31) आउज्झि पिट्ठिअए जह कुक्कुलि णाम मज्झ भत्ताले । पेक्खंतह लाउलकण्णिआह हा कस्स कंदेमि ॥ (निर्भय॑ ताडयते यथा कुकुरी नाम मम भर्ता । प्रेक्षमाणानां राजकुलनियुक्तानां ( 3 प्रेक्षमाणान् राजकुलनियुक्तान् अनादृत्य)
हा( = अहइ)कस्य क्रन्छमि ॥)
1) The Sarasvati-Kanthābharaṇa by Dhāreśvara Bhojadeva with commentaries of
Rāmasimha (I-III) and Jagaddhara (IV), Kavyamala, 94, Nirnaya Sagar edn, ____Bombay, 1934. 2) The History of Sanskrit Poetics, by Mm Dr. P. V. Kane, 1951 (p. 251). 3) Ibid (p. 250). 4) V. Raghavan: Bhoja's Srngāra-Prakāśa (p. 67), 1978, 3rd edn.