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

188 EXPLANATORY NOTES ll. 15-19. Three examples are given here to illustrate Ud- bhaṭa's theory of काव्यार्थ but not of शास्त्रार्थ. In the first two verses the colour of ether is described as blue like a blue lotus and like that of a sword, though really ether is devoid of any colour. सदैव वारि सिन्धूनाम् । etc. The second half of Bhāmaha's verse (5-34) is quoted here as the third example. The readings वापीसिन्धूनां or वापिसिन्धूनां as found in the editions of the Bhāmaha's Kāvyālaṅkāra may be read as वारि सिन्धूनां which seems to be the correct reading. Here it is said that the water of all rivers is always the same and that the heavenly lights such as the moon and the stars are wonder- fully fixed in their proper places. Followers of Udbhaṭa hold that these descriptions are अविचारितरमणीय because in reality ether has no colour and water of all rivers is not the same at all times and the heavenly bodies also are not fixed in one place, and also because on scientific examination ether is found to be without any colour while the stars are also found moving from place to place. ll. 20-25. Yāyāvarīya does not agree with the view of Aud- bhaṭas because they hold that the Kāvyas only describe unreal aspects of things, and this means that the Kāvyas are valueless. He holds, therefore, that the authors of both S'āstras and Kāvyas describe objects as observed by them. Page. 45. ll. 1-2. Following the rules of Vyākaraṇa and Alaṅkāra śāstras here the simile between the moon and swan, stars and Kumudas, sky and water, cloud and mud, is given. This is a description of the moon which shines on a clear sky with stars but appears as a swan moving on the surface of a lake where there are many lotuses. *[l. 8. यस्तु सरिदद्रि. Quoted in Hemacandra's काव्यानुशासन. under लोल्लट:—“तथा च लोल्लटः— यस्तु सरिदद्रिसागरनगतुरगपुरादिवर्णने यत्नः । कविशक्तिख्यातिफलो विततधियां नो मतः प्रबन्धेषु ॥ यमकानुलोमतदितरचक्रादिभिदोऽतिरसविरोधिन्यः । अभिमानमात्रमेतद्गड्डरिकादिप्रवाहो वा ॥” p. 215.] ll. 3-9. Āparājiti who seems, in all probability, to be a follower of the Rasa school of Bharata advises poets not to indulge in a lengthy description of the rising sun or the moon etc. because it is likely to obstruct a natural outflow of Rasas in the minds of the