Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 1

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

Page 33

20
OPERATIONS IN SEARCH OF SANSKRIT MSS.
straight on. The commentator adds many illustrations: but generally, so far as I have noticed, gives the source. The discussion of vakrokti and anuprâsa is completed in the second adhyâya: and the third is wholly taken up with the doctrine of yamaka. It may be worth noting that both in the palm-leaf MS. and in that now being described, the third is the first adbyâya to which a separate name is ascribed in the colophon. Both MSS. call it the yamakâdhyaya. The explanation is probably that here the discussion of one subject and of one subject only is begun and ended within this division of the book. The fourth adbyâya is called the sleshadhyaya in the colophon of the palm-leaf MS., but not in that of the other. Both MSS. style the fifth, which treats of the alamkaras depending on the sound, the chitrâdhyâya; and the sixth adhyaya is devoted to faults in such ornaments. With the seventh begins that part of the book which best repays perusal.
Alamkâras depending on the sense are said, in a passage I give below, to fall under four great heads, vâstavam, aupamyam, atisaya, and élesha
The discussion of the first of these four kinds is completed in the seventh adhyaya, which in both MSS. is called the vâstavyadhyâya.t
This brings us to about the middle of the book.
The aupamyâdhyaya (so in both MS.) is the eighth. The ninth and tenth are called in both MSS. the atiśaya and ślesha adhyaya respectively. In the eleventh the faults incident to alamkaras dependent on the sense are discussed (arthadoshâdbyâya in both). Then follow four short chapters on the subject of nâyakas and nâyikas, which might have to be omitted in any general course of college instruction.
* अर्थस्यालंकारा वास्तवमौपम्यमतिशयः श्लेषः || एषामेव विशेषा अन्ये तु भवति निःशेषाः || ९ ||
टी० सप्रभेदमर्थमभिधाय सांप्रतं तदलंकारानाह अर्थस्येति उक्तलक्षणस्यार्थस्य वास्तवादयश्चत्वारोलंकारा भवति चतुर्भिः प्रकारैरसौ भूष्यत इत्यर्थः नन्वन्येपि रूपकादयोलंकाराः संति तत् किमिति चत्वार एवोक्ता इत्याह एषामेवेत्यादि तुर्हेता वेषामेव सामान्यभूतानां चतुर्णां ते भेदा यतस्ततो मूलभेदत्वेन नोक्ता इत्यर्थः || ९ ||
मू० वास्तवमिति तत् ज्ञेयं क्रियते वस्तुस्वरूपकथनं यत् ॥ पुष्टार्थमविपरीनं निरुपममनतिशयमश्लेषम् || १० ||
+ Vastavadhyaya in the palm-leaf MS.