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

SIXTH ADHYĀYA 161 Maṅgala and define Pāka as the competency of a poet to selcot suitable words and to put them in appropriate places. This view of the Ācāryas is also referred to and, as Rājaśekhara states, rejected by Vāmana in his Kāvyālaṅkārasūtra (1-3-15) where he calls this faculty of poets as अवेक्षण. To him शब्दपाक is something different and he defines this in the verse यत्पदानि etc. (Ibid. 1-3-15). Avantisundarī ridicules this view of the Vāmanīyas, but extends the sphere of Pāka further to include the propriety of Guṇa, Alaṅkāra, Rīti, ideas, words and their senses in consonance with the Rasas. Rājaśekhara definitely favours the view of Avantisundarī and quotes a well-known verse in its support. This verse सति वक्तरि etc. is also quoted by Vāmana in order to prove the superiority of the Vaidarbhī style, but not to characterise Pāka. This very Pāka has been designated by Ānandavardhana and Kṣemendra by the term of औचित्य or "propriety" in their works. (See Dhvani. p. 145, and Aucityavicāracarcā. 1-3.) Vāmana's definition of Kāvyapāka is given in the following verse:— गुणस्फुटत्वसाकल्ये काव्यपाकं प्रचक्षते । चूतस्य परिणामेन स चायमुपमीयते ॥ (see 3-2-14.) Page. 21. ll. 3-9. Altogether nine varieties of Pāka are recognized and these may be classified under the following three heads:— High. Middling. Low. मृद्वीकापाकः बदरपाकः पिचुमन्दपाकः सहकारपाकः तिन्तिडिकापाकः वार्त्ताकपाकः नालिकेरपाकः त्रपुसपाकः क्रमुकपाकः Generally, later writers on poetics recognize only two Pākas मृद्वीका and नालिकेर as the best, and again, among the two the former as superior to the latter. Adhyāya. VI. l. 16. पदवाक्यविवेकः । In this chapter, the author explains the nature of words and sentences and shows how they constitute poetry. Both these topics relate to the main subject of पदवाक्यविवेक. In the two previous chapters, the faculty by which good words and sentences are distinguished from bad ones has been dealt with. २१