Kavya Prakash Part 02

SR No.: 034219
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mammatacharya
Publisher: Rajasthan Prachyavidya Pratishthan
Publication Year: 1959
Total Pages: 232
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 8 MB

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INTRODUCTION
The other matter viz. some part in the latter portion of K. P. was composed by some other writer, has been discussed at length by our two historians of Sanskrit Poetics, Dr. De and M. M. Dr. Kane. Arjunavarmadeva (13th Century A. D.) in his commentary on the Amaruśataka (verse 30. Kāvyamālā Series), refers to the joint authorship of K. P. According to him Alaka had a hand not only in the 10th but also in the 7th Ullāsa' He probably regarded Mammața and Alaka as the joint authors of the whole work,
Rājānaka Ānanda, a Kasmirian commentator, in his K. P. Nidarśana (1665 A. D.) is more explicit and quotes a traditional verse which records Mammata's authorship upto the topic of Parikara-Alamkāra (X-32) and attributes the rest to ‘Alaţa, Allața or Alaka'.
The three Samketas refer in a general way to the double authorship of K. P. It should be noted that our palm-leaf ms. A. of K. P. which is the oldest Ms. (1158 A. D.) of the work known to us refers in the colophon to the double authorship of K. P. in the words "and TTH : " As Dr. Gode says “In view of the absence of Alaka's name in Ruyyak's allusion of the 12th century and in view of the other references being removed from Mammaţa's date by about a century, the importance of Pandita Lakşmidhara's colophon of the Kavyaprakāśa Ms, in 1158 A. D. is a better and more explicit corroboration of the Kasmirian tradition about the double authorship of Kāvyaprakāśa than that furnished by Rājānaka Ananda in the 17th century or Arjunavarman in the 13th century. The date of Mammata :
Dr. S. K. De in his Sanskrit Poetics assigns Mammata's literary activity roughly to the last quarter of the 11th Century. M. M. Dr. Kane would put the date of the K. P. between 1050 and 1100 A. D.
1 History of Sanskrit Poetics, 1951, pp. 260-61; S. K. De's Sanskrit Poetics Vol. I (1923) pp. 161-62; Introduction to K. P. with Maheśvara's Commentary, p. 20.
2 Rucaka's Samketa p. 75 (C. 0. J. Vol. II, No. 12 September 1935). Someśvara's Samketa-p, 352; Māņikya's Saņketa p. 304 ( A. S. S. Poona).
3 pp. 51, 52 vol. XIIIJ. O. R. S. Madsas 1939, This Ms. has also another importance noted by Dr. Gode. It provides a definite lower limit to Mammata's date by about two years. Ibid p. 49.
4 S. P. Vol. I. p. 160, also p. 19; Introduction to K. P. with Maheswaras's commentary
5 History of Sanskrit Poetics, p. 213.