वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

24 VĀSAVADATTĀ that is no lover [cruel with passion ! red-eyed with lust ! alas, an unlovely dame desireth thee, the essence of lovelessness, hot, pitiless, absolutely no lover, (and) bound for utmost woe !]’ (ed. Hall, pp. 213–214). The vidhi, or ‘rule,’ is defined as follows by the Kuvalayānan- dakārikā (I. 167) : siddhasyāi "va vidhānaṃ yat tad āhur vidhyalaṃkṛtim, ‘what (is) a precept of a thing well established, that they call the vidhi adornment,’ and is exemplified by kuraṅgikē kalpaya kuraṅgaśāvakēbhyaḥ śaspāṅkuraṃ kiśōrikē kāraya kiśōrakēbhyaḥ pratyavēkṣāṃ, ‘Kuraṅgikā, prepare a blade of young grass for the antelope fauns ! Kiśōrikā, have the young colts looked after’ ! (ed. Hall, pp. 230–231). The sambhāvana, or ‘supposition,’ is thus defined by the Kuvalayānandakārikā (I. 125) : sambhāvanaṃ yadī 'tthaṃ syād ity ūhō 'nyasya siddhayē, ‘sambhāvana is a conjecture for the attainment of something else with the thought, “if it were so.”’ It is illustrated in the Vāsavadattā by the passage tvatkṛtē yā "nayā vēdanā "nubhūtā sā yadi nabhaḥ patrāyatē sāgarō mēlānandāyatē brahmāyatē lipikarō bhujagarājāyatē kathakas tadā kim api katham apy anēkāir yugasahasrāir abhilikhyatē kathyatē vā, ‘the pain that hath been felt by this maiden for thy sake might be written or told in some wise or in some way in many thousands of ages if the sky became paper, the sea an ink-well, the scribe Brāhma, (and) the narrator the Lord of Serpents’ (ed. Hall, pp. 238–239). The kāraṇamālā, or ‘chain of causes,’ is given the following definition in the Kuvalayānandakārikā (I. 103 ; cf. Kāvyaprakāśa, tr. Jhā, p. 246, Benares, 1898) : gumphaḥ kāraṇamālā syād yathāprakrāntakāraṇāiḥ, ‘a series (made) by causes proceeding one after the other is a kāraṇamālā,’ and an example is seen by Śivarāma in the description of Vāsavadattā’s palace as ajñātataṭasphāṭikapaṭ- ṭasukhaniṣaṇṇanidrāyamāṇaprāsādapārāvatābhiḥ, ‘with palace