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THB TARGET OF CRITICISM IN BHĀMAHA'S KĀVYĀLANKĀRA IV 39-47
N M Kansara
In the fourth Parlccheda of his Kavyalankara, Bhamaha (7th cent A D), while illustrating fifteen poetic faults (dogas), defines the fourteeatbose, viz, that which is opposed to the Sastras (nyaya-Yirodhı), and pastes! few remarks with reference to the lacident of a dummy clepbent resulting in the capture of Vatsaraja by Inlmlcal forces The question of identifytas the target of this cnticism of an incident of the Udaya DA-story has been touched in passing by veteran acholars like Mm T Ganapati Sastri and Dr S K De and discussed in brief by Mm Dr P, V Kane
In his remarka on the speech of Hamsaka, Mm T Canepaul Sastr notices that while discussing the lack of propriety in the incident Bbumaba bas quoted both verbatim and in substance this passage of Bhusa's Prauijnyaugandharayana, although without mentioning the work by nagel Ma. T Ganapati Sastri thinks that this is an attack against the Prarthaya arayana of Bhase, hus theory is that Bbamah preceded Kdedu iad followed Bhagad and he relies upon the fact that in the speech of Hass aka the words anena mama bhada hado anera mama pida anena mana sudo mama vaassa iti annaha bhattina parakkamam varnosnia, care are almost the same as the words 'hato'nena mama bhra/2., etc. quoted by Bhamaba. In the opinion of Dr De, the ruse of the ardicial elephant la Bbasa's Pratiynayaugandharayana appears to bave been criticized by Bomba 48 incredible, especially as Udayana is described as obo well-
w od la the clephant lore, but he defends Bags on the ground that it is a clarian w blat is not unusual in the popular tale and need not be urged as a serious dimino Dr S N Dasgupta too has touched upon the question with relantage to its chronological implioations outlined by M T Ganapati Sustri, and has remarked that the argument of Mm Ganapati Sastri based on the priarty of Bhamaba to Kalidasa and Bhamaha's possible refercoce to the story contained in Bb sa'a dramas, seems to bo oxtremely improbable, adding that his statoment that Bbamaha was prior to Gunadbya is also wbolly
I CF Prat, Yaug (PRY) of Bhix, ed by T Ganapad Saatn, 1912, p 13 I. note 2 Hut of Sans Poet, by Mm P, V Kano, 1981, p 118 9 Prat Yang (PRY) Aet I, p 19, op cit 4 Bhimaha's Kavyalankara, IV, 44 8 Hist. of Sans. Lit., Vol 1, Calcutta, 1962, p 110.
