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

XXXIV INTRODUCTOIN. that the author planned a very large work; but unfortunately only the first Adhikaraṇa is hitherto available. From remarks like रीतयस्तु तिस्रस्तास्तु पुरस्तात् (p. 10, l. 5), तमौपनिषदिके वक्ष्यामः (p. 11, l. 10), it is clear that he had in his mind the execution of the whole work planned out in the first chapter. Whether he succeeded in this and composed the whole work, we have no sufficient data to determine. Alaṅkāraśekhara¹, however, has quoted 2 verses from Rājaśekhara. The verses, if they really belong to our author, may have been taken from the उभयालंकारिक Adhikaraṇa of the Kāvya- mīmāṁsā. The same work also quotes another verse² which seems to be in the वैनोदिक Adhikaraṇa. The style of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. As the work is some- what on the lines of a Sūtra-work, like Kautilya's Arthaśāstra and Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra, its style is also more or less aphorism- like; and it is no wonder that it is terse and vigorous, charming and pleasing to the ears. The passages and phrases borrowed from the Arthaśāstra and the Kāmasūtra will be referred to in the notes. The Kāvyamīmāṁsā and later writers on rhetorics. It will be easily seen that Hemachandra has borrowed about one fourth of the present work in his Kāvyānuśāsanaviveka. Chapter 17th and 18th are verbally copied with slight changes in the order. Vāgbhaṭa, son of Nemikumāra, has also borrowed the same por- tion in the 1st and 5th chapter of his Kāvyānuśāsana from Hemachandra with some changes, substituting his own verses in some places. Later writers of Kaviśikshās, like Kshemendra, Amara, Vinayachandra and Deveśvara, seem to have been indebt- ed to the Kāvyamīmāṁsā for some of the topics treated in their 1 तदाह राजशेखरः— समानमधिकं न्यूनं सजातीयं विरोधि च । सकुल्यं सोदरं कल्पमित्याद्याः साम्यवाचकाः ॥ अलङ्कारशिरोरत्नं सर्वस्वं काव्यसम्पदाम् । उपमा कविवंशस्य मातैवेति मतिर्मम ॥ अलङ्कारशेखरे—एकादशे मरीचौ. 2 उत्पादितैर्नभोभीतैः शैलैरामूलबन्धनात् । तांस्तानर्थान् समालोक्य समस्यां पूरयेत्कविः ॥ अलङ्कारशेखरे—एकोनविंशे मरीचौ.