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NAVASAHASANKACHARITA OF PADMAGUPTA.
153
sadyah karasparsam-avdpya chitran rane rane yasya kripdnarekha tamdlanild saradindupându
yasas-trilokydbharanan prasáte II = Navasah. I. 60 (with immaterial variations). The first of these verses is found besides in the Alamkaravimarsini of Jayaratha (Deccan Coll. MS. No. 28, fol. 166 ) according to Pischel, Gott. Gel. Anzeigen, 1884, p. 511 ; the second in the Sahityadarpana, 14 under No. 720. Both verses are, to all appearance, copied from Jayadeva 15 in his Chandr dloka, V. 85, 86 :
leveyan birishamsidvangi kva tavan-madanajvaraḥ 11
kirtin prasute dhavatāri éyāmā tava kripānikā 11 (in Jibinanda's publication (Calcutta, 1874). Finally the Kávyaprakása, p. 389, 9, is quoted as an example for the figure ekávali).
purans yasyai savardngandni vardiganā rūpapuras kritángyah ! rupan samunmilitasadvildsa
m-astram vildsdh kusumdyudhasya 11 from the description of the town Ujjayini, Navasdh. I. 21 (puráni yasyāḥ savardnganāni, Ms.).
No single passage from the Navas dhasankacharita is quoted in the Sarasvatikanthabharana. This is rather remarkable, for Bhojadeva, the recognised author of the Sarasvatikanthábharana, 16 must have known the court-poet of his uncle (Vâkpati) and of his father (Sindhurâja ). The possibility that the verse Vasishthaih Sarasvatik, P. 349, belongs to a lost work by Parimala has already been pointed out, p. 151, note 9.
If, on the other hand, verses by Parimala are seldom quoted in Anthologies, it may be understood from this, that his poem is poor in fine phrases and maxims (subhdshita).
IV. - The Navasahasankacharita. The Mahâkávya of Padmagupta contains 18 Sargas, which, as in other poems of this class, bear special names. In the manuscript under notice all these names are not given completely. So far as they are preserved they will be given below.
The total number of the strophes is roughly 1525. With reference to the investigations by Jacobi7 as to the use of the metres in the Mahakavyas we ought, at least, to give the measures Padmagupta has used. The chief metres are : in 1, 9, 14, 17 sarga, Upajati ; in 2, 6, 11, 16, Anushtubh ; in 8, Pushpitdgra; in 4, 7, 13, Vasastha ; in 5, Aupachchhandasika; in 8, Rathoddhatd; in 10, Masjubhashini; in 12, Vaitaliya; in 15, Udgatd; in 18, Vasantatilakd. Besides this, in the closing verses of single sargas, the following are used as side metres :Praharsbini Mandaker ûnta, Malini, Vanamdia, Sardúlavikridita Salini, Sikharini, Sragdhard, Harinfo.Thus 19 metres are used in the Navas dhasdikacharita, that is, exactly as many as in the epics of Kalidasa. It is also to be noticed that Padmagupta is free from all metrical tricks.
16 In the English translation, p. 416 f., His (1. e., Sindhurdja's ) sword, wonderful to say, dark as it is like the Tamala tree, in every battle having obtained contact with his hand, engenders at the very moment a fame, whito 24 the autumnat moon glorifying the triple world.
16 Pinchel's assertion (Rudrata's Sringaratilaka, p. 8, 17) that Jayadeva, with one exception only, uses his own examples, must be somewhat qualified.
16 Bhojah Saramatikanthabharanakarta, Gaparatnamahodadhi, p. 2, 11.
17 Conf. Die Epen Kalidasa's, p. 1858. Vorhandl, des 5ten Int. Orient. Congress, IL 2. and Zeitschrift des deut. morgenl. Gepellachaft, 38, 615.
