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Art. XVII.—Notes on Alaṅkāra Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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The presentation of the Rules and Examples of the Kāvyaprakāśa, in skeleton form, traced as far as possible to their sources, is the object of the present paper. I wish, however, that I had been able to achieve greater success as the result of the immense labour bestowed upon it. Most of the quotations from the older writers were found when studying the work in Poona, twenty-one years ago, with Krshna Śāstrl Vaijāpurkar; but many others were obtained from the literature unearthed by my friend Dr. Bühler during his famous tour in Kashmir and edited by the late Pandit Durgaprasad and by Dr. Peter Peterson. Doubtless many of those which have defied my efforts to track them were composed by the joint authors themselves; whilst others may have come from works no longer extant, a remark which applies very specially to the large number of untraced Prākrta passages. Yet, in spite of all this, I feel that the task might have been performed in more scholarly fashion but for the complete breakdown of my eyesight three years ago, which has considerably circumscribed my work ever since. And, now, a second attack of Glaucoma incapacitates me still more, and seems even to demand the complete abandonment of Oriental studies.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1898

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References

page 292 note 1 This abbreviation is applied throughout to the kārikās of the Dhvanyāloka, as to -which see Part I of these Notes.

page 295 note 1 See Part I of these Notes.

page 300 note 1 Other editions read ‘Anyas.’

page 305 note 1 See this kārikā in order to understand Mammata's comment on page 204.

page 306 note 1 For an account of this poet see Peterson's Introduction to Subhāsh., p. 95.

page 309 note 1 See Maheśacandra's note as to identity of the kārikākāra and vŗttikāra.

page 310 note 1 See his paper, read in 1885 before Bombay Branch of R.A.S., on the Aucityālaṅkāra.

page 313 note 1 See, too, Peterson's Preface to Subhāsh., s.v. Meṇṭha.

page 317 note 1 From what Nami says here regarding the older writer Medhāvin, it may perhaps he inferred that the numerous citations in this part of hia commentary are taken from some treatise on Poetica by him.

page 317 note 1 The figures in parentheses indicate the pages in the Calcutta edition.