Indian Antiquary Vol 41

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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SUNE, 1912.]
MAYURAJA
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dealing with Sitäpaharana in the Uláttardghava is named Kulapatyanka. The quotation ar कुलपस्या रावणजटायुसंवाद: also leads to the same conclusion.
The above facts show that the plot of the Uddttardghara deviates much more from the story of the Ramayana than the plot of Bhavabhūti's Viracharita. We find as a matter of fact that the later a Rimdyana drama is, the more does the story deviate from the original. The story went on altering till in the Janakiparinaya!' and Albhutadarpanale the original story can scarcely I recognised. Bhavabhûti seems to have been the first to dramatise the Ramdyana, as he successiully worked up a greater part of the story into dra'na, and as he does not, like Murari, Rajasekhara and Jayadeva19, refer to previous authors on the subject. So Mâyûrâja, the author of Udattaraghava cannot be in my opinion, earlier than Bhavabhậti, whose time has been fixed by Dr. Bhandarkar
be the first half of the eighth century A.D 20. That he was not later than Rajasekhara is obvious from Rijasekhara's own verse quoted by me at the beginning of this article. Rajasekhara's
late has been fixed on definite grounds by Pandit Durgậprasad in his preface to Karpīramañjari to the between A.D.88495921. So Mayaraja must have flourished somewhere between A.D. 750 and 880.
I give below the passages of Mâyûrâja from Uddttaraghava, which have been quoted in the works on rhetoric, omitting the quotation, which has already been given in the course of the article. Those passages may help the public to form an opinion about the style of the author of the yet unknown drama :
रामो मूर्ति निधाय काननमगान्मालामिवाज्ञां गुरोस्तद्भक्त्या भरतेन राज्यमखिलं मात्रा सहवोज्झितम् । तौ सुग्रीवविभीषणावनुगती नीतो परां संपदं प्रोत्सिता दशकन्धरप्रभृतयो वस्ता समस्ता द्विषः॥
[Dafaripaka p. 76; Sahitydarpana. p. 265.] २ जीवन्त जयिनोऽपि सान्द्रतिमिरवातैवियापापिभिर्भास्वन्तः सकला रवैरपि कराः कस्मारकस्मादमी । . एते चोकबन्धकण्ठरुधिरैराध्मायमानोदरा मुञ्चन्त्याननकंवरानलमुचस्तीवानवान्फेरवाः ।।
[Dasarúpaka, p. 79; Sakityadarpana, p. 310.] राक्षस:तावन्तस्ते महाल्मानो निहताः केन राक्षसाः। येषां नायकतां यातास्त्रिशिरःवरदूषणाः ।। द्वितीयः-गृहीतधनुषा रामहतकेन । प्रथमः-किमेकाकिनैव । द्वितीयः-अदृष्ट्रा का प्रत्येति । पश्य सावतोऽस्मदलस्य । सचविखनशिरःश्वभ्रमज्जकालसंकुलाः। कबन्धाः केवलं जातास्तालोनाला रणाकणे॥ प्रथमः--सखे, ययेवं तदाहनेवंविधः किं करवाणि |
[Dasarấpaka, pp. 102 and 103.] . प्रविश्य पटाक्षेपेण संभ्रान्तो वानरः-महाराभ, एवं खुपवणणदणागमणेण पहरिस........... देवस्स हिमाणन्वनणणं विभलिवं महुवर्ण ।
[Dasarüpaka, p. 111.)
#sahityadarpaya, p. 281.
IT A drama by Ramabhadradikshita who was according to his Janakparinaya) contemporary of Nilakanthadtkihta, who composed his Nilakanthavijaya in 1637.
1 A drama by Mahadeva, son of Krishnastri and pupil of Balakrishņa the teacher of Ramabhadradikshita Mahadeva was, therefore, a contemporary of Bamabhadradikshita.
19 The author of Prasannardghava, son of Mahadeva of Kanndinyagotra and Samitra. Besides Prasani. raghava, he wrote Chandraloka and commentary on Tattvachintamani, Hois quoted in Sahityadarpana (p. 199).. Babu Mon Mohan Chakravarti assigns to Sahityadarapana a dato not later than the 14th century A.D. See J. 4 AS. B.Vol. LXXII, part I, P. 148. .
20 See Introduction to Malaitmadhava, Bombay Sanskrit Series 1 See profsos to Karparamafijari, p...