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“Dasarūpaka-Vicāra”
1673 Bhoja (Ch. XI. Śr. Pra.) has accepted Bharata's definitions of the ten rūpakas and has added two more which have been examined by us under uparūpakas in the earlier chapter on the classification of poetry. As Dr. Raghavan observes (p. 533, Bhoja's Sr. Pra.; Madras, '64) Bhoja has also discussed the structure of Drama. Bhoja has newly introduced the topic of 5 Ārambha-vidhis and has also discussed 5 arthapraksti-s, 5 avasthā-s, 5-samsthā-s, 5 samavasthās (These two are newly discussed topics in Bhoja), 5 sandhis, 5-vrttis, 5 pravrtti-s, 24-pravrttihetus - This makes for his first set of 64. Then 10 lāsyāngas, 13 vīthyangas, 16 vrttyangas 21 sandhyantara-s, 4 patākāsthānaka-s make for his second set of 64. 64 sandhyangas make for his third set of 64 and 64 laksanas make for his fourth set of 64.
It may be noted that we will discuss, following of course the original text and the great work of Dr. Raghavan, the concept of sandhi-s and sandhyanga-s in Bhoja, only after we treat sandhi-s and sandhyangas first in Bharata and Danañjaya. Hemacandra, the N.D., and The S.D. and R.S., normally follow Bharata's line. Though there is no great basic difference but Bhoja's line of thought is toed by Sāradātanaya in B.P. and so also in the NLRK. of Sāgaranandin and R.S. of Singabhūpāla to an extent. So, we will treat Bhoja and his followers separately after first dealing with the NS. of Bharata, DR. of Dhananjaya, Hemacandra, N.D. and the S.D. of Viśvanātha. We will discuss this in the light of a very enlightening research article by our guru and most respected Dr. V. M. Kulkarni, who in his "The conception of sandhi-s in the Sanskrit Drama” has done an excellent work in studying this topic in a critical and comparative fashion. But first of all as in case of Bharata so also in case of other authors, we will first take care of the original source material that covers this topic. Bhoja of course will be looked into along with Śāradātanaya and Sāgaranandin later. We start with the DR.
The DR. is under a mis-conception that a 'sandhi' is the out-come of arthaprakrti-s and 5 avasthā-s taken together respectively. This we will view later but for the present we note what the DR. has to say. The DR. (I. 22b.) observes - (pp. 19, ibid)
artha-prakstayaḥ pañca pancā'vasthāh samanvitäh - 22b and, yathāsamkhyena jāyante mukhā"dyāḥ pañca sandhayaḥ. 23a
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