Studies In Sanskrit Sahitya Shastra

Author(s): V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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Sanskrit Sahityaśāstra
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soever, assert that the KLV (pp 286-303) preserves a major portion of the A. Bh. on the Bhāyādhyäya (NS Ch. VII) which is presumed by Indologists as lost.
(ii) यत्रापि व्यभिचारिणि व्यभिचार्यन्तर संभाव्यते......एतच्च 'यथा नरेन्द्र (नाट्यशास्त्र, ७-१० [१ ७-७ वृत्ति; पृ. ३४९]) इत्यत्र वक्ष्यामः ।
-A. Bh. Ch. VII, p. 345 The KLV, however does not treat of these two passages from the NS. Naturally, we cannot verify if the KLV has presented these promised discussions.
Again, in the A. Bh. on NS Ch. XXII pp. 152-153 Abhinavagupta states that the nature of sattva has been explained at great length in the Bhāvā dhyāya (and Rasādhyāya). This portion, dealing with sattva and sättvika-bhävas, however, Joes not find place in the KLV, probably it was dealt with in the Kalpalata-pallava. The discussion of this topic in the KAS (pp. 144-147) is possibly based on this portion in the A. Bh. on the Bhävādhyāya, now lost. This guess is hazarded on the strength of a few significant phrases common to the A. Bh. and the KAS. Compare for instance :
इह चित्तवृत्तिरेव संवेदनभूमौ संक्रान्ता देहमपि व्याप्नोति । सैव च सत्त्वमित्युच्यते । तत्र चाव्यक्त यत् सवित-प्राणभूमिद्वयानिपतित यत् सत्त्वं तत् भावाध्यायसंश्रयत्वेनैव विज्ञेयम् ।
A. Bh. III. 22 p. 152 संवेदनरूपात् प्रसृतं यत् सत्त्व तद् विचारितम् । अन्यत् तु देहधर्म त्वेनैव स्थित सात्त्विकम् ।
A. Bh. 22 p. 153 and ते (सात्त्विकभावाः) च प्राणभूमिप्रसृतरत्यादिसंवेदनवृत्तयो...... ।
KAS, p. 144