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the oldest compendlum of such stories, the Prakrit portion common with Bhamaha's Bloka might have a similar representative passage there also "87 This is not impossible, especially la view of the fact that, as has been shown by Dr V Raghavan, the original Brhaikntha of Gunadhya in Peisãci was composed in a non flamboyant, extrasımple, most direct, plais, unadorned narrative prose style, to which effect the passages quoted by Bbuja and Heracandra testify . These passages indicate that the stories treated in the BK were very simple in narrative details too, and Gunadhya might have fully deserved the attention of Bhamaha who found the treatment of the nutif quite inadequate and irrational in view of accepted norms of statecraft But, it should be noted that Bhamaha does find fault with Gunadhya whom he refers to ag Kavi', rather his criticism 18 directed against those later poets who borrow the motif of Gunadhya and copy the treatment of it wilbuut improving upon it in the light of accepted norms of conimonsense and statecraft so as to render the story poetically rational Dr Kane's interpretation of Bbamaha's verse IV 46 is quito correct
That the faults enumerated by Bhaniaha might have really existed in Gunadhyas BK is evinced to certain extent from the attempts at the defence of Gunadhiya on the part of Sonadeva the author of the Kathasontsagar (KSS) and kşernendra the author of the Brhatknthamaħjari (BKM) in their treatnient of the incident so as to vindicate the author of the original Let us see in detail how both these Sanskrit epitomists of Gunadhya's original Paisack work defend him
(1) In the BKM Udayana stationed his cavalry at the entrance while he himself entered the forest alone, and he tried to capture the elephant by means of the musical effect of the melodies of the lute 72 Kşemendra Mustifies this incident by putting the burden of the blame on the addiction to elephant catching on the part of Udayan 1
(u) The ASS depicts that Udayana was desirous of conquering CandoAbasena who had insulted him by asking him to go to Ujjayini and
07 Lvl eln. Introduction p 91 LO Mhwa's Spigara Trakis pp I'16-855 69 Ilost Skt Petics p 115 sce supra 70 BAM, II, 31
दृष्टा त तुरगप्राय सैन्य कृयाम्वीमुखे । गजेन्द्रबन्धकुशलो विवेशको महत्वनम् ।। 11 Oput, 11, 39
49 ISKTALA144 storagiallafat o foggar atut Safafea gear !! 72 Opat, Il 40
क्व यन्त्रकृत्रिमो हस्ती योणया क च तद्ग्रह । प्रायेण व्यसनासक्तिर्मोहाय महतामपि ।
