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

122 EXPLANATORY NOTES is strictly observed here in mentioning the subject and the author. Under this Anuprāsa principle, Citrāṅgada can be the originator of the Citra alone. Secondly because, Rājaśekhara subsequently states that 18 chapters were separately composed by eighteen authors : इति ततस्ते पृथक्पृथक् स्वशास्त्राणि विरचयाञ्चक्रुः । (p. 1. l. 13.) Some scholars, however, suggest here a reading different from the present one as आनुप्रासिकं प्रचेताः । यमो यमकानि । But this reading is not warranted by the MS material available at present. The form प्रचेतायन also does not seem to be grammatically correct as the grammatical form in this case ought to be प्राचेतायन or प्रचेतयनिः. Yamakas are very freely used in the Sanskrit literature even from the time of the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata. Kālidāsa also in the 9th sarga of the Raghuvaṁśa uses Yamaka frequently but with care so as not to give rise to a feeling of disgust in the mind of his readers. It is one of the four Alaṅkāras mentioned with several varieties by Bharata, the earliest writer on the science of poetics (see N. S. ed. 16th Chapter). Amongst later writers, Bhāmaha was not satisfied with the classification of Bharata, and he acknowledged only five varieties instead. Though Daṇḍin has no special fondness for Yamakas in the Kāvya, he, nevertheless, deals with the subject with its various sub-divisions in a separate chapter (see K. A. 1. 61). It is, therefore, clear that Yamakas had quite an early origin. Yama, who is considered to be the original teacher of the Yamaka in the emended reading given above is quite in keeping with the scheme of Anuprāsa followed by Rājaśekhara in mentioning the subjects and their teachers. l. 9. चित्रं चित्राङ्गदः । Later writers on literary criticism use the word चित्र to mean an inferior kind of poetry possessing Guṇa and Alaṅkāra only, without any vestige of Dhvani. (see Dhvanyāloka 3. 42 and Kāvyaprakāśa, 1. 5.). Rājaśekhara, here does not refer to the चित्रकाव्य but to चित्र which is recognized as one of the Śabdālaṅkāras by the early writers on Alaṅkāra. Here by the word चित्र, is meant such peculiar combination of words in poetry as to make up Bandhas such as चक्र, खङ्ग, मुरज, etc. and other arrangements of words such as मात्राच्युतक, प्रहेलिका etc. Rudraṭa is the first writer to include this kind of combination of words in his list of Śabdālaṅkāras (2-13.) with the name चित्र, and to deal with its various forms in the 5th chapter of