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FRESH LIGHT ON BHAMAHA-VIVARANA
Till recently Udbhata's commentary on the Kavyālamkāra of Bhāmaha, generally known as Bhämaha-vivarana (BV) was presumed to have been lost beyond recovery. In 1962, however, Gnoli published some fragments from this commentary. Gnoli's identification of his publication with BV. was doubted by Dr. Raghavan.? In his paper on Punaruktavadābhāsa: Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy came to the conclusion that the published fragments do represent the genuine Bhāmaha-vivarana of Udbhata himself.
The study of Kalpalatāviveka* (KLV), however, throws some interesting light, on this controversy, and goes a long way in support of Gnoli's claims. Numerous passages of the commentary published by Gnoli are, beyond any shadow of doubt, the source of numerous passages in KLV. They shed abundant light on some of the obscure, ambiguous and knotty verses in chapter V (Nyāyanirnaya) of Bhāmaha's Kāvyālamkāra. It borrows most of the passages from BV when treating of dosas. A good many of its pratikas, referring to Bhāmaha's text, present variant readings from the printed texts. Some of them are convincingly genuine readings. The text of BV bristles with uncertain and doubtful readings; it is often mutilated as syllables, words, phrases and occasionally sentences are partly or entirely lost. I quote below about a dozen passages from KLV which throw light on and render the corresponding passages from BV intelligible.
(1) Fr. 16 (a) 11 2-8 : These lines which treat of anyārtha dosa (Bhāmaha I. 40) could be restored with the help of the following passage from KLV5 :
ननु चैवं शब्दहीनेऽस्यान्तर्भावः । विषयान्तरप्रयोगेऽप्यपशब्दो भवति न केवलं लोपागमवर्णविकारादीनामयथाकरणे । तथा च
"अस्वगोण्यादयः शब्दाः साधवो विषयान्तरे" [वाक्यपदीय १.१४९] इति तेन विपूर्वो हरतिः पादविक्षेपे प्रसिद्धसम्बन्धः, अस्य च परिमोषप्रयुक्तावपशब्दतव । अपशब्दस्य च स्वप्नेऽप्यप्रयोगादनित्यदोषमध्येऽस्य पाठो न 893 60718 -....Jqafastar a: 1 ....... efter stà !"317 3qanfa:" [Ilona 19-8-80) la तत्त्वम् । विदत्तशब्दे तु न दृश्यते तत्वमिति विशब्दस्यात्र निपातत्वमिति सिद्धम् । विहृत च इति विजहरिति । विहरणं च तत् पादविक्षेपलक्षणायां क्रीडायां प्रसिद्धम् न स्वपहरण इत्यर्थः । प्रसिद्धार्थः इति प्रसिद्धोऽर्थः पादविक्षेपलक्षणादिः।
(2)Fr. 19 II 5-8 : The commentator, when commenting on Bhāmaha II. 8 treats of the figure Punaruktābhāsa and distinguishes it from Yamaka and Lāļānuprāsa. The following extract from KLV is based on these lines of BV : 1) Udbhata's commentary on the Kāvyālarnkāra of Bhāmaha, Roma, Istituto Italiano per II
Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, 1962. 2) Presidential Address, The Twenty-first All India Oriental Conference, Srinagar, October, 1961 3) Punaruktavadābhāsa and Genuineness of the published Fragments from Udbhata's Bhämaha
vivarana, The Journal of the Karnatak University VIII. 1964. 4) L. D. Series No. 17, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidyamandira, Ahmedabad-9. 5) Vide p 7 11 17-28 6) Read in this connection Prof. Krishnamoorthy's paper, mentioned in f. n. 3; supra.
