Indological Studies

Author(s): H C Bhayani
Publisher: Parshva Prakashan

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Literary and Performing Arts
thing. Svayambhū’s Hiāliā is the same as the Bindumati of the Kuvalayamālā,20 while the Hiāliā mentioned by Abhinavagupta is, as already pointed out, the Hiyaya (= Hşdaya) variety of the Kuvalayamāla.21
Postscript : In the story of Guņavarman and Kanakavatı occurring in the biography of Svayambhū Vāsudeva and Bhadra Baladeva (See Silānka's Caupannamahāpurisacariya ed. by A. M. Bhojak, PTS, 3. 1961, pp. 117–127), the hero and heroine are described as diverting themselves with verse riddles. Praśnottara, Bindumati, Prahelikā, Hrdayavati (Hiyāliyā), and Gūdhacaturthaka figure there in this connection. The two illustrations of Hiyāliyā are as under:
जइ सिक्खविओ सीसो 'जईण रयणीए जुज्जइ ण गंतु" । ता कीस भणइ अज्जो ‘मा कुप्पसु दो वि सरिसाई' ।
(The solution : fequiuit g at जइ सा सहीहिं भणिया दइओ ते दोसमग्गणसयोहो । ता कीस मुद्धामुही अहिययर गव्वमुव्वहइ ॥
(The solution : For az f) It will be easily seen that these Hiyāliyās differ from those of the Kuvalayamālā and of Bhattendurāja cited in note 17. Both of them (and especially the second one) bear a family-likeness with the Abhiprāyagūdha illustration of the Sarasvatikanthābharana cited here in note 21. The date of the Caupannamahāpurisacariya is 869 A.D. It seems that regarding the Hrdayavati type Uddyotana and Abhinavagupta had the same tradition and source before them and they were different from those tat were commonly shared by Silāňka and Bhoja, the last one of these being responsible for once more changing its classification and nomenclature.
Notes
1. यदा तु...हृदयवतीषु च षटप्रज्ञा दिगाथासु कासुचिद् व्यङ्ग्यविशिष्टवाच्ये प्राधान्य
aafa yutuqa4H7T safafasa-cuaca i Dhvanyāloka, N. S. edition, p. 222; Chowkhamba Series edition, pp. 553–54. Some editions have सप्रज्ञक or सप्रज्ञक for षटप्रज्ञ..