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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c22.s1: Anandavardhana

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c22.s1

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Anandavardhana

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Edition. With the *kārikā* and *Locana* in Kāvyamālā 25, 1890, 1911; translation into German with an introd. by Hermann Jacobi in *ZDMG* lvi-lvii, 1902-03. (reprinted separately, Leipzig 1903). Our references are to the Kāvyamālā ed. of 1911. MSS. Aufrecht i 273b, iii 59a.

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*Abhinavagupta*

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Editions. (1) Kāvyamālā 25, 1890, 1911 with the text (first three *uddyotas* only) (2) Fourth *uddyota* without the text by the present writer in the *Journal of the Department of Letters*, Calcutta Univ. 1923. The full title is *Kāvyâloka-locana*. MSS. Aufrecht i 273b, ii 59a, iii 59a. Burnell 55a probably contains all the four *uddyotas*; also *Madras Cat.* 12893-94 (the last number containing only the fourth *uddyota*, while the other one all the 4 *uddyotas*). Aufrecht's entry (i 49) of *ānandavardhanīya-kāvyâlaṃkāra-kāmadhenu-ṭīkā* involves a twofold error, due perhaps to Oppert's inaccurate entry; for the designation *ānandavardhanīya* is incorrect, and by *Kāvyâlaṃkāra-Kāmadhenu-ṭīkā* is probably meant the commentary of that name on Vāmana (see p. 84 above), mixed up through a confusion with Abhinava's *Locana*.

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Commentaries. (1) *Locana-vyākhyā-kaumudī* by Parameśvarācārya. Oppert 2694.
(2) *Añjana* (?), anonymous. *Madras Cat.* 12895, extract (only on the first *uddyota*). The author erroneously describes Bhaṭṭendu-rāja as the *parama-guru* of Abhinava.

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The *Candrikā* comm. on Ānandavardhana, referred to by Abhinava and others, is apparently lost. *Abhinava bhāratī* on Bharata. The Trivandrum Palace MS. contains only ch. 1-6, 9-13 18, 19. The MS. in the possession of Dr. Gaṅgānāth Jhā of Benares, of which he kindly furnished the present writer with a transcript, contains 1-6, 7 (incomplete), 8-31; but there are numerous gaps especially in the last few chapters. It follows in general the Trivandrum MS. A MS has been recently acquired for the Madras Government Oriental MSS Library which is also incomplete. An edition of chaps. vi and vii (on *rasa* ond *bhāva*) is in preparation by the present writer. This voluminous but learned commentary deserves to be published.

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No MS has been discovered of Abhinava's *Kāvyakautuka-vivaraṇa*, or of the *Kāvya-kautuka* itself.

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For citations of poetical and Alaṃkāra works by Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, see preface to the Kāvyamālā ed., and Jacob in *JRAS*, 1897, pp. 290 and 297. Only omit the name of Dhanika given by Jacob as an author quoted by Abhinava.

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