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Review
Sikhariņi (no. 16), and the originality of the image of bees imprisoned in lotuses and ladies imprisoned in their lovers' arms being set free at daybreak because of Queen East's giving birth to Prince Sun (no. 14) - these fla. shes of Muräri's creativity would have been otherwise lost to us.
ga for a (no. 11, line 3) and flyst for satyssan (no. 16, line 2) should be added to the Corrigenda.
H. C. Bhayani
Unknown Verses Attributed to Kşemendra by Ludwik Sternbach, Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, Lucknow, 1979, pp. 8+148, Rs. 75/
Sternbach's present work is on the same lines as his earlier work on the stray verses of Murāri.2 Here he has collected 415 verses attributed to K şemendra either in his own other works or in the Subhāşita-samgrahas, Of these 245 verses are 'new' in the sense that they are not found in the extent works of Kșemendra. Of these 57 verses are from his known but non-extant works and 38 verses are from his unknown, non-extant works : This information we owe to Kşemendra himself as he has quoted these verses in his extant works under his own name. The remaining verses, attributed to Kşemendra in classical anthologies, were, as Sternbach's discussion shows, ‘probably in the majority of cases Kşemendra's verses.'
After an introductory note on 39 works of Kşemendra, Sternbach has offerred a critical study of the 'new' Kșemendra verses with respect to their sources. Incidentally he has also given a descriptive classification of Sanskrit anthologies. The section on the fourteen non-extant works on which some light is thrown by the verses quoted therefrom will be found intrestting and useful. The painstaking examination of authenticity of the attribution of these verses to Kşemendra is a valuable contribution Following this critical essay we have the text of the 'new' verses and the Pràtikas of the verses identified from Kşemendra's known works (with detailed recording of sources and variant readings). A bibliography of Kşemendra's works and two indices are given at the end.
Ksemendra was a prolific writer, who had tried his hand at all sorts of works, creative, scholarly and didactic. He had a pronounced critical, satirical and reformist vain. His poetry is qualitatively uneven, and a large part of the verses collected in the work under review has little poetic merit. But verses like nos. 17, 29, 31, 32, 59, 104, 144 are such as would certainly do credit to any good poet.
There are several misprints in this well-printed volume : A -18 a). FOST (48 a), fanat: (for futo) (60 d), optei (for 'z) (101 d), TT (137 q.). 2 see also his paper on the unknown poetry of Bāņa' ABORI, 1979, LX, pp. 109
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