Sambodhi 1981 Vol 10

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

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A Fresh Reference to Bhartrmitra's View on Laksaná
Biswanth Bhattacharya Bhartsmitra's well-known view on the fivefold relationship that laksaņā bears to the vãoyartha has been upheld as authoritative by many early and mediaeval alankārikas. He has been cited by name only in a few cases while in other his verse has been quoted anonymously. Thus he has been cited by name by Mukula-Bhațţa in the Abhidha-vrtti-matrkā, and someśvara and Māņikyacandra in their senketas (commentaries) on ManmataBhatta's Kāvya-prakāsa But the selfsame verse has been quoted anonymously by Abhinavagupta in the Locana on Anandavardhana's Dhvanyaloka, Mammaţa-Bhatta in the Sabda-vyāpāra-vicāra, śridhara, Gunaratna-gaņin and Kamalakara-Bhatta in their commentaries on the Kavya-prakāśa, King Gopendra-Tripurabara in the Kavyalankara kamadhenu on Vamana's Kavyalankāra-sutra-výtti and Mallavadi Laksmaņa-sari in the Mandara on Dharma-sOri's Sābitya-ratnakara. The rel:vant verse occurs also in the Agni-Paraña. Toe variants are minor. Narendraprabha-sori also seems to have envisaged the same verse in his Alankāra-mahodachit),
Now, the purport of the present research paper is to place on record a fresh finding of an anonymous quotation of the verse in question by Narahari Sarasvati tirtha in his Bala-cittanuranjari on the Kavya-prakasa as follows :
vaiparityād api laksaņā pravartate/ tatho(tha) coktam (coktam......sic.) abhidheyena samyogāt samtpyāt samavåyatah/ ya iparstyāt kriya-yogal laksaņā pancadbā mata/l (iti/] 2
SrI-Guru-caraņa-samarpaņam astu 11. 1) Cf. the present writer's research papers entitled 'A Note on Bhartsmitra the Mimāṁsaka' in the Sri Venkateswara University Oricotal Journal, Tirupati, Vol. XVII, Parts 1 & 2, January. December, 1974 pp. 131-132; 'A Further Note on Bhartsmitra the Mimāraisaka' in the same Journal, Vol. XIX. Parts 1 & 2, January-December, 1976, pp. 11-13; and 'Fresh Data on Bhartsmitra's View on Lakşaņa (accepted for publication in the Viśveśvarānanda Indological Journal, Vol. XVIII (=Dr. K. V. Sarma Felicitation Volume), Hoshiarpur, Panjab).
2) Mammaţa's Kavya[ - ]prakāša (I-VI) with the Sāra[ - ]dipikā of Gunaratna gaņi[n]ed. Dr. Tapasvi s Nandi, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad-380009, First Edition, 1976, Appendix I, p.325 Bala-città nuranjadi on Ullāsa IV]. .
This verse cannot be found in the corresponding text of the Bālacittanuranjant edited by Dr. Goparaju Ram ard Dr. Jagannatha Pathak, Allahabad. 1976, p. 61 which has a big lacuna in this case.