उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

[UTTARARĀMACHARITA. XXI Yoga systems of philosophy and of the poetical and rhetori- cal literature before him.⁶ He displays his knowledge of the Vedānta in the use of the word Vivarta in several places and in his references to Upanishad passages which we have duly noted in the notes. His profound study of the Yoga system is seen in the Mahāvīracharita (Act III) and in the Mālatī- mādhava (Act V). He seems to have been a proud man and feels no restraint in praising himself.⁷ In this he offers a striking contrast to Kālidāsa who is so modest as not even to mention his name in most of his works. There are indications in his works which lead us to infer that Bhavabhūti had to put up with neglect and ridicule from his contemporaries before he secured for himself a niche in the temple of fame.⁸ Several stories about Bhavabhūti are current among the Pandits, most of which are without any historical basis. In the Bhojaprabandha of Ballāla we read that Kālidāsa, Bhava- bhūti, Bāṇa, Mayūra and a host of other poets were contem- poraries and engaged in many trials of wit in the court of Bhoja king of Dhārā, who was a patron of letters. We are ६ यदध्याप्यं तपोनिष्ठम् नाम्नाऽसौ दीयते च हस्ते तद्ग्रन्थेन - न लभ्यते कविर्गुरुर्नो नाटके। देवीमन्वगमल्लक्ष्मीः सा वाचना दैवीमश्रोत् 'रवेः ऋचोऽभि... रव ऋक् पाणिन्दशशदक्षौ । मा०मा० I. 10. For display of his knowledge of the Vedas, etc. notes on IV. 18; II. 12. In the words 'दृष्टिवेदे

• सुपानिदि दण्ड्यान्,' there is a reference to the शतपथब्राह्मण 13th काण्ड (a portion of which is devoted to the अश्वमेध sacrifice) 'तस्यैते पुरस्ताद्रक्षिण उपक्लृप्ता भवन्ति। राजपुत्राः कवचिनः शतमास्यान्यधिकृत्य शतं भूमपत्याः पुत्रा राजन्याः शतं सूतसंग्रहीतृपुत्रा दण्डिनः शतमश्वशतं नित्यं रिमादप्रतिष्ठनमश्वमुपस्कन्दन्ति। शतपथ XIII. 4. 2. 5. In शु०यजु० XIII. 1. 6.

3. we read 'शतं कवचिनो रक्षन्ति दण्ड्यं मध्यमं प्रात्यरक्षेदथ'. As भवभूति was a follower of the तैत्तिरीयशाखा he probably refers to the तैत्तिरीयब्राह्मण III. 8. 9. 4. देवा आशापाला एतं देवेभ्योऽश्वं मेधाय प्रोक्षितं गोपायतेत्याह शतं च राजपुत्राः शतं च राजपुत्राः देवा आशापालाः and to the words of the आपस्तम्बश्रौतसूत्र 'अश्वमुत्सृज्य देवा आशापाला इति दिग्भ्यः परिददाति शतं कवचिनो राजपुत्रांश्चैकेभ्योऽन्वतिष्ठेत्' 7 Vide उत्तररामचरित I. 1 and महावीरचरित I. 4 'वश्यवाचः कवेर्वाक्यं मा च रानामधा कथा।' 8 Note the verse 'ये नाम केचिदिह नः प्रथयन्त्यवज्ञां जानन्तु ते किमपि तान्प्रति नैष यत्नः। उत्पत्स्यते मम तु कोऽपि समानधर्मा कालो ह्ययं निरवधिर्विपुला च पृथ्वी ॥' मा०मा० I.