काव्यमीमांसा (महाकवि राजशेखर - कवि-रहस्य एवं देश-विभाग सटीक)

Preface to the Second Edition. The text of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā has been based on two MSS. from the Pattan Jain Bhaṇḍārs, designated A and B. A is a palm-leaf MS. belonging to the Bhaṇḍār deposited in the Vakhatji's Sheri in Foflia Wāḍā. This is the very MS. mentioned by Dr. Peterson in his 5th Report. The MS. is very correct and reliable, but unfortunately it is incomplete and much injured. It is 13"×1¼" with 5 lines on a side, and consists of 4–11, 13–25, 29–54 leaves and 8 much injured pieces containing the ends of the 16th and the 17th chapters. The fourth leaf begins with ग्रन्थभीरुप्रियार्थम् (second chapter page 4 line 2nd), and the 54th leaf ends with आलेख्य the beginning of the 13th chapter (page 69 line 2). The first of the 8 much injured leaves begins with वरनमुचिपुलॊमप्रभृतयः दानवाः (page 88 line 23) and ends with इत्थं देशविभागो मुद्रामात्रेण (page 98 line 8). The MS. seems from its writing (which is Brahmanical and not Jain) to have been copied at about the end of the 13th century A. D. It is numbered only on the left side with numerical figures. This MS., being old and very correct, has been mainly relied upon as far as available. B is a part of a paper MS. from the Bhaṇḍār deposited in the Wāḍi Pārśwanāth's Temple at Pattan. It is a very beautifully-written old Jain paper MS. with numerical signs on the left and letters on the right to show the pagination. It contains two works (1) काव्यमीमांसा—कविरहस्य (leaves 1–31a lines 3) (2) कविरहस्यवृत्ति a commentary on Halāyudha's कविरहस्य (कविगुह्य) by रविधर्म (31a–lines 4–55). The MS. was written, like most of the MSS. of this very important Bhaṇḍār, in the time of Jinabhadrasūri, the pontiff of the Kharatara Gachha in Saṁvat 1491 (A. D. 1434). The writer's colophon runs as follows:—शुभमस्तु लेखकपाठकयोः । छ । मंगलं महाश्रीः । छ । संवत् १४९१ वर्षे चैत्रवदि १३ शनौ श्रीखरतरगच्छे श्रीजिनभद्रसूरिविजयराज्ये भाण्डागारे काव्यमीमांसा लिखितं ॥ छ ॥ श्री । छ । श्रीः छ । श्रीः । छः श्रीः । कल्याणमस्तु । छ । श्रीः । छ । श्रीः । The portion of Ravidharma's Kavirahasyavṛitti begins:—