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Fixing up of Some Variants from Kalidasa
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Viveka, has been a source of great inspiration in critically editing portions of the Abhinava-bhārati for scholars such as Gnoli and Kulkarni. So, the importanee of these alamkāra-works is beyond dispute in this stupendous task or editiag the works of Kālidāsa. Any intelligent and siocere editor, of course, will have to weigh all evidences critically.
We may note that Hemacandra (H. C) bas quoted 46 verses from Kumārasambhava (Kūmāra.), 31 from Raghuvassa (Raghu.), and eight each from the Abbijñāna-Sākuntalam (Abh. Sā.), Vikramorvasiyam (Vikrama), and Meghadūta (Megha). He has not quoted either from the Mālavikāgoimitra (Māl.) or Ritusambāra (Ritu.). Perhaps nobody has quoted from the work mentioned last. Bhoja has as many as 95 illustra. tions only from the Abh. Śā., and we bave yet to count the total number of verses quoted by Bhɔja from other works of Kālidāsa. Mammața has 11 from Kumāra., 6 from Raghu., 9 from Vikrama. 2 from Abh. Sa., and 1 from Megha., making a total of 29 verses.
To illustrate, we propose to concentrate on just five verses from Abh. Sa. only. They are :
(1) $ffaçagusiaato (2) haj afero (3) 91AFIHH
(4) GIAIR Efẽo and (5) BERIT alg fafarao
The method will be first to note available variants in the printed editions of the works of Vāmapa, Ananda, Bhoja, Mammata and Hemacandra, along with their commentators, if any, and then also to note the variants as found in some important editions of the Abh. Sa We have given a full list of all these editions of these works in Appendix A.The verses cited 23 illustrations occur in the works of authors mentioned against them, such as,
(1) #fagayugaato (2) naraj afeTTO
is read by Vamana & Bhoja; is read by Văwana, Bhoja, Mammata & Hemacandra. is read by Mammata and Hemacandra. is read by Anandvardhana, Bhoja & Hemacandra,
(3) (4)
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