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Alamkara, Samgita and Natya
[ 347. " इति श्रीमनाट्यशास्त्रे श्रीकण्ठकविविरचितायां रसकौमुद्यां" Folios 53 to 56 deal with talas ; folios 57 to 100 deal with Karanas, angaharas etc. in the manner of the 4th chapter of the Natyaśāstra of Bharata ; folios 100 to III deal with Sodasasrngåra-varnana and a rhetorical description of the six seasons and folios III to 119 deal with ngpaniti or rules of kingly life and behaviour, which don't properly fit in this treatise, the major portion of which deals with Natya
sastra' as stated in all colophons. Age.--Samvat 1652.
Author.-- Srikantha Kavi. .Subject.- Natyasastra as mentioned in the colophons.
The work appears to be a combination of Sahitya and Samgita written by the poet Srikantha to commemorate the love of his patron Jam, for these two arts as mentioned in verse 36 in the colophon. Jam mentioned in verse 36 is the grandson of Jam Raval of Navanagar who founded the present line of the Jams of Navanagar in A. D. 1540. The T Teer king mentioned in the verse 36 and the preceding one is none else than Jam satarsal who reigned from 1569 A. D. to 1608. The paesent copy, therefore, written when both श्रीकण्ठकवि and his prtron श शल्य king were living. The work must have been written between A. D. 1569 and A. D. 1596 the date of the present copy. First 52 folios are missing ; some folio, from fol. 53 onwards are moth-eaten at the corners, hence the following extract from 53 which is not lost in the moth-eaten part of the same is here given :--
.......। इति संख्या ॥ अथ ताले गुरुदिष्टान् दश संचान ब्रुवेधुना । अन्योन्यतालयोर्योगे संचार संच उच्यते ॥ ॥ लक्ष्यजाः साधका सम्यक् तं जानाति परेन च कल्पश्चिबाहरौदिगि दिगिश्चैव (ईि) कर्तरी । कर्नुर्धरूटदद्याख्या झें (?) कृतिर्मिश्रकस्त्विति । कल्पोद्भवाः पाटवर्णास्ते ते थैत्वितीरिताः। . वर्णाः स्युस्तक्रिडा इति चित्रे गिडदगा परे। . पाटावादर संज्ञे तु धरगिडामताः संचे दिगि दिगो प्रोक्ता-पाटौ दिगि दिगीति च ॥
