History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.36

c6.36

about 90 matters in which बोधिसत्त्व became proficient are enumerated. In the context where क्रियाकल्प is sandwiched between Vedāṅgas and several other lores, क्रियाकल्प can only mean श्राद्धकल्प, particularly when the word यज्ञकल्प precedes. Dr. Raghavan himself points out that the काव्यादर्श employs the word क्रियाविधि (in I. 9). Then, as Daṇḍin refers to what former writers did for the व्युत्पत्ति of people, why does Dr. Raghavan not say that क्रियाविधि was the name of the शास्त्र ? For reasons of space I do not pursue this matter much further. I do not accept the new name for the शास्त्र which he propounds as used in olden times. It has further to be noted that five great commentators of the भागवतपुराण X. 45. 36 have the reading (in the list of 64 कलाs) क्रियाविकल्प instead of क्रियाकल्प. Thus the whole edifice of क्रियाकल्प being the ancient name of the science of Poetics is raised on rather slippery foundations, viz. a doubtful reading क्रियाकल्प. श्रीधर expressaly states that his enumeration is based on शैवतन्त्र (and not on the कामसूत्र). The kalās have been variously given from ancient times. The कामसूत्र itself (I. 3. 17) states that पाञ्चाल (बाभ्रव्य) proclaimed another set of 64 kalās. The कामसूत्र states (I. 3. 17-18) ‘पाञ्चालिको च चतुःषष्टिरपरा। तस्याः प्रयोगानन्ववेत्य सांप्रयोगिके वक्ष्यामः।’ Here the meaning of कला is different, as it means ‘different modes of sexual enjoyment’. सांप्रयोगिक is the 2nd अधिकरण of कामसूत्र .Vide ‘तदान्ध्रीषु प्रायेणेति संवेशनप्रकारा बाभ्रवीयाः’ II. 6 21. कामसूत्र I. 1. 10 mentions a work of पाञ्चाल बाभ्रव्य in 7 अधिकरणs on कामशास्त्र. Vide I. H. Q. vol. VIII pp. 542-548 for different lists of kalās (Prof. Chintaharan Chakravarti), I. H. Q. vol. V. pp. 88 ff (Dr. Acharya), J.R. A. S. 1914 p. 355, the कलाविलास of क्षेमेन्द्र who furnishes two different lists in the 4th and 10th (verse 40) cantos. The नाट्यशास्त्र appears to presuppose 64 kalās (34. 44, 35. 60). In the वासवदत्ता (p. 140 of Hall’s ed.) there is a reference to 64 कलाs.