Sambodhi 1978 Vol 07

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 12

BHOJA'S ŚRNGĀRAPRAKĀŚA : PRAKRIT TEXT RESTORED
V. M. Kulkarni A considerable number of Prakrit passages in Srngaraprakasa (Vol. IV : Prakāśas. 25 to 36) are extremely corrupt. They are such as cannot be traced to their sources, primary or secondary. They are not cited as illustrations in any other work either on poetics or prosody or grammar. Quite a few of these verses have prossibly been drawn from Prakrit epics such as Sarvasena's Harivijaya which are lost beyond recovery. An earnest attempt is made in this paper to restore them keeping in view the context, the metre, the tenor of the verse, and parallel ideas found elsewhere in Prakrit or Sanskrit poetic works.
With a view to economising space I do not record the variant readings, barring a few cases, but present the reconstructed verses adding below them their Sanskrit chāyā.
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Al Atha mõnopaśama-laksaņāni /........ Teșu nayana-nimilanan yatha
Daiāloapaatta.... Teşu nayananimilanam yathā Daiāloapaatta..........
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दियितालोकप्रवृत्ता अध्युच्छिन्न-प्रसरद-बाष्प-विकलिता/विगलिता ।
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....... itil Teşu mukha-prasādo yathāAloe ccia pie
(Vol. IV p.1041) This verse is further on (p. 1211) cited by Bhoja to illustrate 'mukhaprasadah' once again. The text of the verse is somewhat corrupt at both the places. Though each is corrupt, they help us between themselves to restore the original verse.
आलोइए चिअ पिए ठविओ तोए मअणेण मोहणसुहओ। कुसुमधणुम्मि वि बाणो विलइअ-विम्भम-गुणे मुहम्मि पहरिसो ।।
आलोकित एव प्रिये स्थापितः तस्या मदनेन मोहनसुभगः/सुखदः।। L a saa aruit gaa(?)-ah-TU ge : 11
(p. 1211) cite
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3. Atha mänopaśama-laksaņānil ... ... Teșu doşa (?) roja prati bhedo
yathaAccanta anna jaņo ......
(Vol IV p. 1042)