Sadyavatsa Kathanakam

Author(s): Pritam Singhvi
Publisher: Parshwa International Shaikshanik aur Shodhnishth Pratishthan

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हर्षवर्धन-गणि-कृतं सदयवत्स-कथानकम्
९९ ing from the Arabian Nights which itself is based on the version that occurs in Seven Vazirs, the Arabic version of the Book of Sindibād!
15. The text in which Śūdravatsa, and Tuntaka are said to figure is mentioned by Bhoja as Kāmasenā-vipralambha. But the references and the works we have discussed consistently refer to the tale by the name of the hero : Suddavaccha-vira-cariya, Sadayavatsa-vira-prabandha, Suddavaccha, Suddaya etc. So it seems that the work referred to by Bhoja was possibly a composition based on the love-affair between Sūdravatsa and Kāmasenā. Bhoja has referred to another similarly titled work : Irsyālu-vipralambha''. Moreover a work cited by Bhoja as a Rāsakāñka is identified by Raghavan as the Rādha-vipralambha of Bhejjala, on the basis of Abhinavagupta's references20. This fact makes it likely that Kāmasenā-vipralambha was the title of the full work, possibly a dramatic type. On the other hand, from the SP. reference like Karpūrikālābha, Kalingasenālābha etc. which are names of sections of the BỊhatkathā version known to Bhoja?!, and not titles of complete works, we see that Bhoja sometimes gave reference to a section only of a work wherein the episode, character etc. he wanted to illustrate figures. In that case Kāmasenā-vipralambha can be taken to refer to a particular section or episode in the SūdravatsaKathā, known to Bhoja.
NOTES This is a revised and expanded version of my paper entitled "Suddayacariya, a lost romantic tale in Apabhraṁsa” which was published in the Proceedings of the Seminar on Prakrit Studies (1973), ed. by K.R. Chandra, Ahmedabad, 1978 (L.D. Series 70), 24-27. Later on it has been included in my collection 'Indological
Studey Vol. 1, 1993. 1. 1978, pithamarddaḥ dantakaḥ südravatsasya kāmasenā-vipralambhe
(Sệngāraprakāśa, p. 909). 2. Bhoja's Sğrgāraprakāśa, p. 826.