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SAHĶDAYĀLOKA The (NLRK. =) Nātaka-laksanaratna-kosa of Sāgaranandin, in our opinion is posterior to Sāradātanaya as quite often observed by us on earlier occasions, the impression that is created is that the NLRK. at a number of places, seems to give a brief summary of what Śā. narrates at length.
Sāgaranandin (= Sā.) (NLRK. Edn. Babulal Shastri, Chowkhambha skt. Samsthāna, Varanasi, '72) treats of Sandhi-s and also sandhyangas after treating vastu, avasthā, and here five avasthās following Mātrgupta are also mentioned -, arthaprakrti-s, then again itivrtta and its varieties, viz. adhikärika and prāsangika, anka, nāyaka and five devices such as praveśaka etc.
Sandhis and Sandhyanga-s follow the above mentioned topics. NLRK. (p. 45, Kā. 57) observes :
“pañca-sandhi nāțakam kartavyam. asya nāțakasya pañca sandhayo bhavanti iti niyamah-yathocyate.
“pūrņa-sandhi tu tar kāryam hīna-sandhyapi vā punah, niyamāt pūrņa-sandhis syāt
hīnasandhis tu kāraṇāt.” (57) This is a quotation from the NS. XXI/16. It allows even nātaka to have sandhis, less than five, on some special grounds.
That nātaka which is pūrnasandhi, has to be inclusive of five sandhis. If when on account of shortness of theme, there are less than five sandhi-s, it is said to be "hina-sandhi" nataka. There is also, observes NLRK, a rule in lessening sandhi-s - (pp. 46, ibid)
: yat pūrņa-sandhi tat pañca-sandhy eva kartavyam. yasya punar ākhyānavastunaḥ svalpatvād hīyate sandhis that khalu hīna-sandhiḥ syāt. tatrā’pi niyamah
Here, the NLRK. again quotes NS. XXI/17 which as seen in the NS., ordains that when it is cancellation of one sandhi, it is vimarśa, then, when two sandhis are omitted they are vimarsa and garbha and when three are dropped the second, third and forth i.e. pratimukha, garbha and vimarśa are dropped.
We may observe that the editor of the NLRK, here refers to the chowkhamba edn. (Kashi.) of the NS. So, when Ch. XXI is mentioned it is 19th of the G.O.S. But for the sake of convenience here we have mentioned the references from the NS. as identified by the editor of the NLRK in his edition.
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