उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

4 NOTES ON [I 1- who had the title श्रीकण्ठ by way of distinction. श्रीकण्ठ इति पदं लाञ्छनं यस्य. G explains in another way 'who was devoted to the feet of Siva. It seems that the poet's original name was भवभूति and that later on he was given the title of श्रीकण्ठ. वीर० reverses this order and says that श्रीकण्ठ was his real name and that he was called भवभूति by a king who was pleased with a verse of the poet. Vide com. R. says 'शेषाशिफणिफणाकिरीटनाङ्गारेवी निलशालस्य कण्ठे भवतीति मत्वा तदानीन्तनेन भवभूतेः श्रीकण्ठ इति विशेषणं परिकल्पितम्.' पद ज्ञः who knows the sciences of Grammar, Logic and Mīmānsā. पद means 'an inflected word' and stands for Grammar which deals with words. वाक्य a sentence. Logic deals with sentences and the fallacies that lurk in them. प्रमाण means 'authoritative means of knowledge.' The मीमांसा (both पूर्व and उत्तर) deals with शब्द and other प्रमाणs. वीर० on महावीरचरित says 'पदवाक्यप्रमाणज्ञो व्याकरणतर्कमीमांसावित्.' Accord- ing to others वाक्य stands for मीमांसा (because मीमांसा helps one to understand Vedic passages which often appear con- tradictory) and प्रमाण for तर्क (logic). Compare 'पदावगतिहेतु- त्वात्पदं व्याकरणम्। वाक्यसमन्वयावभावहेतु वाक्यस्य मीमांसा। प्रमाणप्रवृत्तिविकारि- त्वात्प्रमाणं तर्कः।' मुकुल in अभिधावृत्तिमातृका (verse 13). जातूकर्णीपुत्र son of a woman who was sprung from जातूकर्ण्यगोत्र. भरत says that the poet's name should be mentioned 'प्रख्यातं रङ्ग विनिविष्टदेनांम च कीर्तयेत्। प्रस्तावनां ततः कुर्यात्काव्यप्रख्यापनाह्वयाम्॥' (नाट्य० 5. 151). Similarly the साहित्यदर्पण says 'रङ्गे प्रसाद्य मधुरैः श्लोकैः काव्यार्थसूचकैः। कृतस्य कवेराख्या गोत्राद्यपि स कीर्तयेत्॥' Verse 2-ब्रह्मणे=ब्राह्मणम्. 'वेदस्तत्त्वं तपो ब्रह्म ब्रह्मा विप्रः प्रजापतिः' इत्यमरः. The propriety of the word is twofold. भवभूति wants to place emphasis on the fact that he scrupulously performed the six duties of a ब्राह्मण viz. यजन, याजन, अध्ययन, अध्यापन, दान and प्रति- ग्रह. The word ब्रह्मन् also suggests प्रजापति, whose wife सरस्वती is represented to be. इयम्-This may mean 'well known to all' वश्ये वशंवदे follows like an obedient wife or like a woman enamour- ed. N reads मा व्यवर्तत (Imperfect of वृत् with अनु) which is bad, as the word अस्ति has been already used. N reads वशंवदः. We may then construe इव with यम्, यमेव (नान्यं कमपि कविं) इव देवी वाक् वेश्या (मती) अनुवर्त्तते. But this is not quite happy and there is दुरात्वय. उत्तर चरित्र-The latter part of the life or history of Rāma. This drama is a complement of the महावीरचरित which deals with the events of Rāma's life up to his installation on the throne of Ayodhyā. प्रणीतं-तेन ब्रह्मणा प्रणीतं-composed by that (ब्राह्मण