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

264 EXPLANATORY NOTES of Bhuvanakośa as enumerated in the first chapter p. 2. l. 4 and which now seems to be lost. According to that statement: भुवनकोशः । इति कविरहस्यं प्रथममधिकरणम् इत्यादि । Bhuvanakośa seems to be the last subject dealt with in this Adhikaraṇa. There is another passage also: इत्थं देशविभागो मुद्रामात्रेण सूत्रितः सुधियाम् । यस्तु जिगीषत्यधिकं पश्यतु मद्भुवनकोशमसौ ॥ (Kāvyamīmāṁsā p. 98. ll. 8-9.) which confirms the above view. Some scholars hold that the Bhuvanakośa is a separate treatise of Rājaśekhara, but this does not appear to be correct for reasons already cited. It is, there- fore, to be concluded that the last portion of the Kavirahasya dealing with the Bhuvanakośa as well as the other 17 Adhikaraṇas of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā, as enumerated in the first chapter 'शास्त्रसङ्ग्रह' of this work, have been entirely lost. Very probably, the reason why this extent portion alone out of the bulky volume of 18 Adhikaraṇas of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā has been preserved in the Jain Bhandars of the Patan town in the territory of Baroda Raj, is that the greater portion of this section is borrowed by the great Jain Ācāryas such as Hemacandrācārya, Vāgbhaṭa and Māṇikyacandra in their Kāvyānuśāsanas and in the commentary on the Kāvya- prakāśa and, therefore, to prove the authenticity of the writings of their Ācāryas, the later Jain scholars might have taken more care to preserve this portion alone; or, it is also quite possible that only the extant portion of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā was available when the Jain Bhandār Libraries were being organized. Another plausible explanation is that probably Rājaśekhara did not live to complete his Kāvyamīmāṁsā which was projected in 18 Adhikaraṇas—a very ambitious scheme, and the chapters available to-day is the portion which he could complete during his life-time.