History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.72

c6.72

¹ The words of the ध्व० ‘काव्यस्य स एवार्थः सारभूतः संनिहितसहचरीविरहकातरक्रौञ्चाक्रन्दजनितशोक एव श्लोकतया परिणतः’ (p.32) and of the लोचन क्रौञ्चद्वन्द्ववियोगेन सहचरीहननोद्भूतेन साहचर्यध्वंसनेनोत्थितः (p. 317) create a serious difficulty. All editions of the रामायण make the hunter kill the male bird and it is the female that laments. The ध्व. and लोचन had, it is clear, a reading before them which made the female die by the arrow. Not only so, the काव्यमी. of राजशेखर (p. 7) reads ‘निषादनिहतसहचरीं क्रौञ्चयुवानं करुणक्रन्दारया गिरा क्रन्दन्तमुदीक्ष्य’ &c. and supports the above interpretation of the ध्व० given by me. The late M. M. Prof. Kuppuswami in his उपलोचन on कौमुदी explains ‘निहतः सहचरीविरहकातरः क्रौञ्चः’ &c. But