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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Appendix - I
THE APABHRANSA PASSAGES FROM BHOJA'S
SRNGARAPRAKĀŠA,
By
H. C. BHAYANI, Ahmedabad The Apabbraṁsa passages cited in Bhoja's Srrigā raprakasal (=SP.) are found in a very corrupt form in the available Manuscripts of that work. Unlike many of the Prakrit Passages of the SP., most of them equally corrupt, the original sources of the Apabhrassa passages are unknown and a majority of the passages we come to know here for the first time. Hence in their case we are totally deprived of any external aid towards restoring the text or making out the sense. Any effort in that direction is therefore bound to be basically conjectural. Depending upon the amount of corruption and luck in making the right hit, the results can vary from just making out the metre to restoring the text in bits and part and making sense of the passage. The present effort is confined to the first eight chapters of the ŚP. In that portion there are twenty-two Apabhramsa citations, each made up of a single verse. They are to be found in SP page 102 (one), 103 (five), 121 (three). 228 (one) 238 (one), 269 (seven), 273 (two) and 280 (two). Two of the citiations occur twice in the SP. and hence in all there are twenty different passages. Five of these passages occur also in Bhoja's Sarasvatikanthābharana ( =SK.) and four also in Hemacandra's Siddhahema (=SH). In what follows, first I give the context of the passage and the text of the passage as printed in the Mysore edition. Thereafter is given the text as it is found elsewhere, if the case is so. This is followed by the suggested reconstruction of the passage and Sanskrit Chaya.
The metre of all the passages except no. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11 can be identified as Doha. It is an Antarasamă Catuspadi, with 13 (i. e. 6+4+uvu) and 11 (i. e. 6+4+ ) Matrās in its odd and even Pädas respectively. The metres of the rest are indicated individully in the treatment below.
1. Sringaraprakasha, edited by G. R. Josyer, First eight chapters, Mysore,, 1955.
2. For the restoration of the Prakrit passages of the SP. See Kulkarni, V. M: The Srogāraprakāśa : Prākrit text restored ', Journal of Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Vol. I, 1968 Bhoja's Srngāraprakāśa (Chapters XV-XXIV) Prakrit text restored ', Journal of the University of Bombay, Arts No. Vol. 39, no. 75, 1970: Sambodhi, Vol. 4, 1975–76.
3. Kāvyamālā Series No. 94, 1934.
4. Prakrit Grammar of Hemacandra, edited by P. L. Vaidya, 1958. I have slightly revised the text of the Apabhramsa Citations in a few places.
5. See Jinavijaya Muni and Bhayani, H.C. : Sandeśarā saka, Introduction, pp. 62-64 and the references given there.