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

be construed with the word यस्य. The first half of the verse should, therefore, be construed as: यस्य कथासर्गः न नीचैः, अथ न प्रतिभाक्षयः स कविग्रामणीः । According to the reading available in Ms A, however, the construction will be as follows:— यस्य ( कवेः ) अर्थकथासर्गे ( गीं ) न नीचैः, ( यस्य ) न प्रतिभाक्षयः स कविग्रामणीः । This construction also gives a good sense inasmuch as the अर्थ and कथा developed by a poet through his power of imagination and described in the last two verses, are the subject-matter of this Śloka. The only defect in this reading is that the two words नीचैः and प्रतिभाक्षयः do not sound well. An emendation may be suggested giving a better sense as:—नवीनार्थकथासर्गे यस्य न प्रतिभाक्षयः । स कविग्रामणीः । but this emendation is not supported by any of the Mss available. ll. 9–13. A knowledge of different sciences and common practices is considered necessary for poets by later writers such as Kṣemendra, Hemacandra, Vāgbhaṭa and Vinayacandra who have included several varieties under the heading of Prakīrṇaka. But Rājaśekhara illustrates only four kinds of them and suggests several more worthy of being known by poets, saying : एवं प्रकीर्णकान्तरमपि । On Hastiśikṣā, for instance, the verse मेघानां etc. is quoted here as an illustration. Here the well-known habit of elephants while bathing in the river is correctly observed in the description of Irāvaṇa’s throwing up water. *[ l. 18. स दक्षिणापाङ्ग ( कुमारसंभव. III. 70. ) ] Page. 41. *[ l. 2. पाण्ड्योऽयमंसार्पित. ( रघुवंश VI. 60 ) ll. 1–5. These last four additional sources for the theme of poetry, introduced by Rājaśekhara for the first time, are not referred to by any of the later writers, though the other twelve sources are quoted sometimes with the same illustrations as given by our author. It is not, however, easy to surmise how these four principles उचितसंयोग etc. are considered as काव्यार्थयोनि by Rājaśekhara. But it is clear that Rājaśekhara has shown by these four illustrations the four methods of description. उचितसंयोग is ‘the appropriate connection ( of things )’. ll. 6–9. युक्तसंयोगः=the connection of a thing already descri- २४