Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c7: The Commentators On Bharata
Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c7
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The Commentators On Bharata
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The names of the reputed as well as actual commentators on Bharata mentioned by Abhinavagupta and Śārṅgadeva are:
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1 Udbhaṭa? 2 Lollaṭa 3 Śaṅkuka 4 Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka 5 Rāhala or Rāhula? 6 Bhaṭṭa Yantra? 7 Abhinavagupta 8 Kīrtidhara 9 Mātṛguptācārya?
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Of these, we have already discussed the unauthenticated or doubtful names marked here with an interrogation.¹ Of Kīrtidhara we know nothing. No commentary on Bharata exists today except that of Abhinavagupta, which, voluminous as it is, certainly deserves to be published.
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¹ see above p. 26 fn
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that these kārikās are abridged from the Agni-purāṇa. Somadeva in his Yaśastilaka (959-60 A. D.) refers, indeed, to a bharata-praṇīta kavyādhyāya (Peterson ii p. 45) which, considering Somadeva's date, could not have alluded to this tradition of Bharata's authorship of Mammaṭa's kārikās, but possibly, from the terms of reference, to ch. xvi of the Nāṭya-śāstra, which deals with kāvyālaṃkāras and guṇas as embellishments of the dramatic speech.
Linked texts (2)
- Nāṭyaśāstra — Bharata, Sanskrit
- Yaśastilaka — Somadevasūri, Sanskrit