Alankar Sutra

Author(s): K Sambashiv Shastri
Publisher: Government of Travancore

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Kuyyaka is here mentioned as his preceptor (guru). (2) "गुर्वलङ्कारसूत्राणां वृत्त्या तात्पर्यमुच्यते।"
(The first stanza in the present work.) Here the author of the Vrtti says that the meaning of the Alankārasūtras of his preceptor is explained in the Vrtti. (3) "इति मङ्खुको वितेने काश्मीरक्षितिपसान्धिविमहिकः । सुकविमुखालङ्करणं तदिदमलङ्कारसर्वस्वम् ॥"
(The last stanza of the present work.) Here the author is specifically mentioned as Mankhuka and his work as Alaňkārasarvasva.
The present commentator Samudrabandha would lead us to an entirely different standpoint altogether. He calls the work that he starts to comment upon, Alankārasarvasva and its author Maßkhuka. He also states that this work on poetics is 'originated' by Mankhuka. Thus:(1) "कदाचिन्मख़ुकापलं काव्यालङ्कारलक्षणम् । .
प्रदर्य रविवर्माणं प्रार्थयन्त विपश्चितः ॥" (2) “गम्भीरं नस्तितीर्पूणां मख़ुकप्रन्थसागरम् ।"
(B) "बुधपरिषदलङ्कारो व्याख्यदलङ्कारसर्वस्वम्।” He indeed coinment:s on the passage,
___'गुर्वलकारसूत्राणां वृत्या तात्पर्यमुच्यते ।' and explains it गुर्वित्यमेन विवक्षितस्य तात्पर्यस्यावश्यवक्तव्यतां दर्शयति । He would appear not to find any reference to a preceptor in the first work but rather to take it as meaning that which deserves explanation'.
Proceeding to comment on Alankārasarvasva, he occa sionally gives explanations of the Sūtra portion as well, and makes it apparent, that he includes both Satra and Vštti in his conception of Alaňkārasarvasva. Thus:- : (1) "विशेषणसाम्यादप्रस्तुतस्य गम्यत्वे समासोक्तिः (सू-३१) विशेषण
साम्यादित्यादि । अप्रस्तुतस्य गम्यत्व इत्यनेन सारूप्यनिमित्त.
मप्रस्तुतप्रशंसाभेदं व्यवच्छिनत्ति ।" (2) “विरुद्धाभासस्वं विरोधः (सू-४०) विरुद्धाभासत्वमिति । अवि
रुद्धत्वेऽपि विरुद्धवदाभासमानो विरुद्धाभासः। तस्य भावस्त
स्वम् ।"
Besides, where the Vrtti explains the word 'Samkshe. patah' in the Sūtra,