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

262 EXPLANATORY NOTES here only in a very concise form, and that the other characteristics of the seasons, therefore, should be imagined by the poets themselves. नामग्राहं कियद्ब्रूमः। The author regrets here his inability to deal in detail with everything that he happened to know. This testifies to his vast knowledge and his love of the subject. It may further be said that there is no other work in the Sanskrit literature, superior to this portion of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā on the subject of the description of the different seasons. The inferiority of such works as the Ṛtusaṁhāra will be quite apparent when it is compared with this chapter. ll. 12–13. Here the author advises other poets not to record their observations indiscriminately in their compositions but to adopt only the method followed by the early poets as their chief guide while describing. l. 14. Rājaśekhara wants to close this chapter on seasons and their divisions after noting down two more points regarding the flowers and fruits which also belong to the main theme of this chapter. According to Rājaśekhara flowers are required to serve six different functions, such as:—(1) शोभा beauty (2) अन्धस् food (3) गन्ध smell (4) रस essence (5) फलम् fruits (6) अर्चनम् worship. There is no seventh function to be served by them except to wither and decay in the forest. ll. 16–23. A period of four months is to be allowed by poets while describing the process of transformation from a flower to a ripened fruit. This period of four months refers only to the case of the flowers of the trees and not to those of the creepers in which case the period of maturity is two months only. ll. 24–25. Here Rājaśekhara classifies fruits under six heads according to their form. The word व्याज here means pretence. In every fruit the kernel is hidden in the useless and rough skin and this is what is known as pretence. This pretence also varies in six ways by its position in the fruits, either inside or out-side or in both places, and so on. All fruits are divided into six groups following the nature of the pretence of the fruits. Page. 112. ll. 1–4. The fruit of the Lakuca tree has व्याज only in the middle and all other portions of it are useful. This fruit may be like the Ciku (चिकु) fruit of the present day.