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KAVIKAUSTUBHA
जहि शत्रुबलं राजन् जय विश्वम्भरामिमाम् ।
तव नैकोपि विद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानुकम्पिनः ॥ ३.१३२. 51 ,l. 1. Kāvyamandana is not recorded in the Catalogus Catalogorum. It is not known whether this Mayūra is identicle with the author of the Süryas'atalca, who flourished in the 7th century A. D, and was reputed the father-in-law of Bāna. If we can ascertain the chronology of the king Virasena mentioned in the following stanza, then we might know the upper limit of Mayūra's period.
52. The destruction by one king Vīrasena of his enemies in the battle is metaphorically described in the this stanza as a sacrifice. The chief of his enemies ( ET) is represented as an animal offered as on oblation in this sacrifice. But our author finds the fault o in this stanza.
52, 11. 1-2. The fault of occurs in this stanza as the mentiou of arrows and swords as blades of darbho-grass and wooden ladles respectively is oppesed (fast) to the description of the enemy as sacrificial animal, for it is killed at the sacrifice not by swords and arrows but by mere fists, and as such it does not prove the valour of the king.
53. quffaqiffa—the complete stanza runs as follows:
चयस्त्विषामित्यवधारितं पुरा ततः शरीरीति विभाविताकृतिम् ।
विभुर्विभक्तावयवं पुमानिति क्रमादमुं नारद इत्यबोधि सः ॥
This stanza describes how Nārada appeared to Krsna, while he was descending from the heaven to the earth. But according to our author this involves the fault be as what is described as a mass of lustre is later described as an embodied being a male and Nārada; and this being opposed to the earlier description in the same stanza is regarded as constituting the fault ost.
54. According to Sanskrit rhetorcians there are four kinds of poetic diction or वैदी, गौडी, पांचाली and लाटिका. When two (or more) of these are mixed up in one and the same stanza, the fault fage arises. The Gaudi style is characterized by preponderance of compounds. (FATF i. e. Aftagh); cf. FHTATET Tigi-Hifi 9. 3. The Vaidarbhi is BTTTHIET, free from compounds i. e. containing very few and not too long compounds cf. 3ēqafer Tartaiachi sifarand-AIPATU 9. 2.
55. Here the first line is one compound and therefore in Gauļi style, while the second apparently does not contain any compounds; the words quyr and are really compounds but they are hardly noticed as such; hence there arises the fault Afdhe.
56. Here also the fault ffe occurs because of the mixture of Gaudi in the first line and Vaidarbhi in the second, Farac, one of the five trees of Indra's paradise. यस्य, of ओषधिप्रस्थ the capital city of Himalaya. गन्धमादन, name of a mountain situated to the south (or according to some, to the east) of Meru.
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