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Dombikā and Sidgaka
27 However the fact is, I think, that Bhoja has included the Dombikā in his list and treatment of the Uparūpakas, but under a different name. The name of the second Uparūpaka in Bhoja's list is ‘Durmilikā', and this ‘Durmilikā' is nothing but ‘Dombikā' in a Sanskritized garb. The Sțigāraprakāśa defines the Durmilikā as under 18 :
चौर्यरतप्रतिभेद युनारनुरागवणन वापि । यत्र ग्राम्यकथामिः कुरुते किल दूतिका रहसि ॥ मन्त्रयति च तद्विषय न्यग्जातित्वेन याचते च वसु ।
लब्ध्वापि लब्धुमिच्छति दुर्भिलिता नाम तद्भवति ॥ This is nothing but an expanded version of the definition of the Dombikā as found in the ABH., and all the additional details can be accounted for by what is said about the character of the Dombikā in the above-mentioned discussion in the ABH. In fact the S'țngāraprakāśa definition incorporates the wording and substance of the following passage of the ABH., which is textually better preserved in the KA. (See ABH., p. 175; KA., p. 448) :
सैव डोम्बिका नरपतिपरितोषकार्थाभिधायिवचननिष्टेन गीतेन वायेन नृत्येन च राजानमनुरजयितु गृहीताद्यमा वक्रीत्वेन (? ABH. मन्त्रित्वेन; cf. मन्त्रयति in the Srigāraprakāsa definition) पूर्वस्थिता मध्ये काचिदीदृशी चौय कामुककेलिलालसमानसा काचित् पुनरेव विधां कश्चिदेव भूतश्चौय कामुकः, काप्येव भूतस्तत्र काचिदेव प्रौढदूतीत्येवमादे राजपुत्रहदयानुप्रवेशयोग्य तत्प्रसादेन धना यज नापायमभिदधती तमेव राजपुत्र परत्वेन तथैव वा समुद्दिश्य अन्यदपिचेष्टितममिधायान्ते होभ्विकाकुत्यमेवोपसंहरति ।
There can be hardly any doubt about the identity of the types thus characterized in the ABH. and the S’ğügāraprakāśa.
Bhoja's Durmilikā or Durmilitā (later, also Durmallika) clearly stands for the earlier Dombilikā.
Possibly Bhoja himself was responsible for the form Durmnilikā (or Otā)20. The later writers have it from him. It is found neither in the ABH. nor in the KA. The same tendency to Sanskritize
