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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KAVYAPRAKASA-SAM KETA
The date of Somes'vara:
The colophon of the palm-leaf mus. of K, D. K. P. S. as noted in its description has the following:
भरद्वाजकुलोत्तंसभट्टदेवकसूनुना। सोमेश्वरेण रचितः काव्यादर्शः सुमेधसा ॥
संपूर्णश्च ete. संवत् १२८३ वर्षे आषाढवदि १२ शनौ लिखितमिति ।
From this we gather that Bhatta Someśvara was the son of Bhatta Devaka and belonged to the Kula i. e, family of Bharadvājas.
The palm-leaf ms, was completed on Saturday the 12th of the dark-balf of Aşādha Samvat 1283 i. e. Saturday April 25, 1226 A, D., or Saturday May 15, 1227 A. D.
This is all the first hand information that we have about Some. śvara, the author of K. D. K. P. S. The lower limit of the times in which he must have lived is either April 1226 A. D. or May 1227 A. D., when the writing of our Ms. A was finished.
This Someśvara was taken by Peterson and Aufrecht to be the author of Kirtikaumudi' and a contemporary and a close friend of Vastupāla ( who died in 1240 A. D.). This mistake has been corrected by S. K. De, M. Krishnmachari and Sandesara. Krishnamacbari, however, places our Someśvara in the 14th Century, which is obviously wrong, because the palm-leaf ms, A. of K, D, K. P, S, is dated 1226 or 1227 A. D.
The authors and works referred to by Someśvara in his Samketa are not later than Mammaţa. Amongst others however, we may mention Tilaka to whom Someśvara refers on p. 295. He was the author of a commentary on Udbhata's Alamkārasāra Samgraha called Udbhataviveka or Udbhatavicära. He is placed between 1075-1125 A. D. by K. S. Ramaswami Sastri and between 1100-1125 A, D. by M, M. Dr. Kane.'
1 S. K. De, Sanskrit Poetics Vol. I. p. 172.
2 Sandesara, Literary Circle of Mahămātya Vastupala; Singhi Jain Series, 1953 p. 32. Pandits Sivadatta and Kasivatha credit him with the authorship of Kāvyaprakāšaţika & Kāvyādarśa, p. 16, Introduction to Surathotsava, K. M. Series, 1902,
3 L. C. V. p. 49.
4 See p. 757 and footnote 4, History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, 1937, Madras.
5 History of Sanskrit Poetics pp. 130-131. See also pp. 34, 41, 45, Sanskrit Introduction of K. S. Ramaswami Sastri to his edition of Kävyälaņkārasărasamgraha G. 0. S. 1931. Sri K. S. Ramaswami Sastri. refers to the possibility of other works of Rājānaka Tilika on acoount of certain references to him made by Rucaka in his Alamkārasarvasva not found in his edition of Udbhataviveka (pp. 38-39). M. M. Kane, however, brushes aside this possibility by saying that the opinion is based on bare conjectures (p. 131 H. S. P.). But the opinion of K. S. Ramaswami Sastri is strengthened by the fact that the quotation in connection with Aksepa Alamkāra attributed to Tilaka by Somes'vara is also not found in the Udbhata viveka on p. 21 of the text where it would be expected.