स्वप्नवासवदत्तम् (महाकवि भास - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी अनुवाद)

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deva seems, as it were, to procced towards two different directions; her body going towards her place of confinement, but her mind towards the child:— “हृदयेनेह तत्राङ्गैर्द्विधाभूतेव गच्छति । यथा नभसि तोये च चन्द्रलेखा द्विधा कृता ॥” There is a striking similarity between this verse and the following one in the first Act of Sâkuntala:— “गच्छति पुरः शरीरं धावति पश्चादसंस्तुतं चेतः । चीनांशुकमिव केतोः प्रतिवातं नीयमानस्य ॥” The following line in the first Act of Svapnavâsavadatta, viz., “विस्रब्धं हरिणाश्चरन्त्यचकिता देशागतप्रत्ययाः”, is, by a slight change, rendered thus in the first Act of Sâkuntala:— “विश्वासोपगमादभिन्नगतयः शब्दं सहन्ते मृगाः”. Similarly, there may be observed several other points of resem- blance between the works of Bhâsa and those of Kâlidâsa. Again, such striking similarities can be clearly noticed in Bhava- bhûti’s works also, on a close examination. As instances may be taken from Âtreyî’s discourse in the 2nd Act of Uttararâmacharita which closely follows that of the Brahmachâri in the first Act of Svapnavâsavadatta, as also that of the Vidyâdhara in the sixth Act which follows a similar discourse in the sixth Act of Abhishekanâtaka. Again, the use of Dandaka in the fifth Act of Mâlatîmâdhava bears a strong analogy to the Dandaka form employed in the fifth Act of Avimâraka. The work, known as Mrichchhakatika which is reputed to be older than Kâlidâsa’s plays not only contains many points [Margin: Mrichchhakatika compared.] of similarity to Bhâsa’s works, but the very same sentences are taken wholesale from the one in the other. Thus, several verses and sentences in the Chârudattanâtaka are either literally transcribed, or, are made to undergo but slight altera- tion in Mrichchhakatika.