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

Preface to the Third Edition. The third revised and enlarged edition of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā of the celebrated author Rājaśekhara, published as No. 1 of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series is now presented to the public. The Kāvyamīmāṁsā with which the Gaekwad's Oriental Series was inaugurated in 1916, has proved to be popular with scholars as also with Universities, many of them prescribing the work as a text-book. The first edition was exhausted in 1924, and the second in 1933, and the third is going forward with several new features which, the present editor believes, will enhance its use- fulness for scholars and students alike. The text of the present edition is once more collated with MS. No. 6065 of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, which is a transcript of the original paper MS. preserved in the Wāḍi Pārśvanātha's temple at Pattan. This MS. is marked B. in the previous editions. Quotations from the Kāvyamīmāṁsā in later works have been carefully compared with the text, and this has enabled the present editor to suggest several correct readings of obscure and incorrect words which had crept into the previous editions. Emendations such as these have been added to the text in square brackets. Another noteworthy feature of this edition, to which attention of readers may be drawn, consists of the elaborate and exhaustive notes on words and passages of the Kāvyamīmāṁsā which have a bearing on the past history and culture of India. It is hoped that with the help of these notes, it will be possible for students to appreciate the remarkable scholarship of Rājaśekhara more fully and more comprehensively. Among the appratus criticus added to this edition, mention may be made of a list of earlier works which Rājaśekhara utilized as source-books in preparing the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. This has been given in an Appendix to this edition. In another Appendix identifications have been given of 212 geographical names men- tioned in the Kāvyamīmāṁsā. Many of these geographical names have been treated in Cunningham's Ancient Geography of India, and the Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Modern India