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ON AN ANONYMOUS HEMISTICH CITED IN VĀMANA'S
KĀVYĀLANKĀRA-SŪTRA-VRTTI
Biswanath Bhattacharya
Vámana's Kavyālapkāra-sūtra-vitti, 5/1/11 (sarva-nāmnä’nusandhir Vșttic-chanpasya) contains the following anonymous citation :
tavapi nilaipala-patra-cak$uşo mukhasya tad-reņu-samāna-gandhinah" Chowkhamba edn. Bcnares Sanskrit Series, Nos.
134 & 140 ), Benares, 1908, p. 155) Vamana introduces the above liemistich in course of his Vytti to establish his point that the sarva-nāman sabda, 'tad-' can refer understandably to the upamāna, nilotpala-patra, even though this upamāna is upasarjanjbhūta I -apradhānal in the upamāna-pārva-pada? madhyama-pada-lopin anyapadārtha-pradhāna bahuvrihi samāsa (nilotpala-patra-sadçse cakşuşi yasya yasmin va tasya mukhasyety āsayah.
This subseqent reference to some previously mentioned point with the help of a sarva-naman eschews also kathita-padatva dosa.
However, Vāmana's above sutra along with the illustrative hemistich has been cited anonymously with some negligible variants by Purna-Sarasvati2 and R$i-putra Paramegvara3 in their respective commentaries on Kalidasa's Megha-sandesa, 1/2. 1 The obvious avāntara samāsas, karmadharaya and şaşthi-tat puruşa, have been
ignored here. 2 Cf. tavasya nilotpala-cari-cakşuşo
mukhasya......-gandhinah.iti.
sarva-bāmna['Jnusamdhir vịttie-channasya iti lakşaņāt.
(Vidyul-latit ed. R. V. Krishnamachariar, Sri-Vāņi-viläsa Press, Sriran
gam, 1909, pp. 7-81 Cf, also the present writer's Some Citations in Parna-Sarasvati's Vidyul-latā on Kalidasa's Megha-sandesa' in the Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, Vol.
XXXIX, Parts I-IV, 1976, pp. 65-67. 3 Cf.....kaścit (=Purņa-Sarasvati ?1 tu "Sabdal'lnušāsanam" iti, " tavāsya nilotpala
Caru-cakşuşo mukhasya tad-reņu-samāna-gandhinah" iti śāstre kävye ca prayogadarsanāt samāse guṇabhūtasyāpi parāmarśah kriyate....
[ Sumano-ramaņi ( ed. S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer ), University of Travancore Manuscripts Library, Trivandrum, 1946, pp. 5-6]
