Book Title: Shataka Trayadi Subhashit Sangraha
Author(s): Bhartuhari, Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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________________ INTRODUCTION 57 that the MS tradition originates in Rajasthân, and this is borne out by what we know of Bhartrhari from legends. Considering the importance which recensions from Kaśmir, Bengal, and Nepal possess for editing works like the Mahābhărata, I submit the following evidence for the non-existence of local versions in these provinces. 2. 2. Sāradā-Kas'mīrī. No Śäradă MS of Bhartrhari's satakas has been reported anywhere. No complete Satakatraya MS in Kasmiri has been reported in any accessible catalogue. Individual satakas are, however scarce, reported. IO 7210 is a vairāgya-sataka of A.D. 1850 copied by a Kaśmirian pandit Rămaratna. Aurel Stein's catalogue [Bombay NSP 1894 ] records five MSS of Bharthari's śatakas, of which 559 and 4016 are of the V in modern Kasmiri, the latter with a Hindi commentary; 980 and 1037 are again of the same satuka, dated samvat 1875 and 1892 respectively. No. 229 is of the Niti. No MS of the complete satakatraya has been reported from any source in Kasmir, in spite of several inquiries. This is in striking contrast to the wealth of Bhartrhari MSS from Rajputānā state collections of comparable standing, or to the old and indispensable MSS of other works found in Kaśmir-Jammu. It is worth noting that the grammarian Bhartrhari, author of the Väkyapadīya, was higly regarded and studied in Kaśmir. The supplementary evidence is that the Kaśmirian Abhinavagupta [ 1000 A. D.7 knows only of the grammarian Bhartrhari, and seems never to have heard of the poet. Nevertheless, the Dhvanyāloka of Anandavardhana (Kasmirian of the 9th century) contains the stanza smitam kiñcid [my 93 ] without attribution to any author. In the 11th century, Kşemendra does cite a poet Bhartrhari by name but he gives as others' slokas which are as genuine Bharthari as any (2 to Candraka, 155 to Parivrājaka, 179* to Dipaka, 213 to Utpalarája) at least by the canon adopted in this edition. The Kaśmirian anthologies, the Sārngadharapaddhati [1363 A. D.] and the [15 th cent.?] Subhāṣitāvali of Vallabhadeva [or Śrīvara according to BORI 203 and 204 of 1875-76] are more generous. But in such cases we do not know what portion of the ascriptions is due to the anthologist and which to later copyists. Böhtlingk found that MSS of the śp. differed considerably in giving authors for the same verse. The evidence thus points to a late importation of and a slowly growing taste for Bhartrhari in Kasmir. 2.3. Nepal, Mithilā, Bengal. The sole MS reported in Nepal belongs to the southernmost archetype. In Mithilā, K, P. Jayaswal's "Descriptive Catalogue" | Patna 19331 vol. II reports only three Bharthari MSS in the Kāvya secton: p. 69, no. 65 of the Nīti in Maithili characters; p. 104, no. 101 described merely as a Bhatpharisataka, but may be a complete ?] MS of the southern version Y-the problem is here complicated by the reported owners, the Chitradhärā Library, denying that they have any MS of Bhartrhari at all. The last is. p. 160-1, no. 156, presumably of a vairagya. Santiniketan has, apparently, two MSS of Bhartrhari of which one is a badly wormeaten Grantha palm-leaf, and the other a devanāgari paper Nitisataka. Of the 16 MSS at the RASB Cat, VII nos. 5097-5111 and 8 H. J. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org


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