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

250 EXPLANATORY NOTES Page. 95. ll. 1–2. In this verse the figure विरोधाभास is shown by the words अपूर्व etc. *[ l. 5. एकं ज्योतिर्दृशो ( सूर्यशतक. 13 ) l. 10. MSS of विवेक read दशदिकूटपर्यन्त. ] l. 11. स्थूललक्ष्य=one who cannot observe minutely. *[ l. 14. Viveka reads द्विधा च दिव्यव्यवहारः ] ll. 12–14. विवक्षापरतन्त्रा=depending on the desire of the speaker. When an astronomer explains the position of directions, he takes recourse to the position of heavenly bodies such as Citrā, Svātī, Dhruva, etc. The direction east is decided by seeing the inter- mediate distance between the two stars चित्रा and स्वाती. Here the word चित्रास्वात्यन्तर denotes also the day on which the sun’s position is between these two stars. That day is known as विषुवान् when the day and night are equal. There are two such days in a year and they are known as चैत्र or शारदसम्पात and रैवत or वसन्तसम्पात. Only on these two days the sun’s position is exactly to the east of the earth at the time of rising, and exact west at the time of setting. In all the other days of the year the sun rises either to the north or to the south in the eastern horizon and the day or night is either longer or shorter according as it is either the Summer Solstice or the Winter Solstice. People in ancient days used to determine the correctness of the eastern direction by the rise of the sun on the विषुवत् day when the sun rises between the चित्रा and स्वाती constellations, or in other words, when he is in the last degrees of the sign of Virgo. Kātyāyana and his commentator Karkācārya, for instance, have adopted this method of चित्रास्वात्यन्तर to determine the correctness of the eastern direction for the Vedic rites. cf: समे शङ्कं निखाय शङ्कुसम्मितया रज्वा मण्डलं परिलिख्य यत्र लेखयोः शङ्कप्रच्छाया निपतति तत्र शङ्कं निहन्ति । सा प्राची । ( कात्यायनशुल्बसूत्र २.) दक्षिणायने तु चित्रां यावदादित्य उपसर्पति । उदगयने स्वातीमिति । विषुवतीये त्वहनि