Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Gaüdavaho
Appendix III
King Yašovarman-A Poet As has been said in the Introduction, King Yaśovarman was also a poet of no mean order. The name Yaśovarman figures in many anthologies, such as Sūktimuktāvali, Subhāṣitāvali, the Sārngadharapaddhati, Subhāsita-Ratnakosa. In his introduction to the Subhāṣitayali, Peterson mentions a drama Rāmābhyudaya as written by Yasovarman, which must have been', as Raghavan says,* * a very widely known play, as the numerous references to it and quotations from it in works of poetics and dramaturgy show. These referances and citations are ample and informing enough, enabling us to know the author of the play, the number of its Acts and the story of the Play, Act by Act."
Here are a few extracts from Dr. V. Raghavan's article "Some old Lost Rāma Plays" :षडकं दृश्यते लोके रामाभ्युदयनाटकम् ।
शारदातनय-भावप्रकाश. औचित्यं वचसां प्रकृत्यनुगतं, सर्वत्र पात्रोचिता पुष्टिः स्वावसरे रसस्य च, कथामार्गे न चातिकमः । शुद्धिः प्रस्तुतसंविधानविधौ प्रौढिश्च शब्दार्थयोः विद्वद्भिः परिभाव्यतामवहितैरेतावदेवास्तु नः ॥
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वीराणां खरदूषणत्रिशिरसामेको वधं यो व्यधात् । तस्याखण्डिततेजसः कुलजने न्यक्कारमाविष्कृतः
कुण्ठः संगरदुर्मदस्य भवतः स्याञ्चन्द्रहासोऽप्यसिः ॥ * Dr. V. Raghavan—Some old Lost Rāma Plays’ P. 1