History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.95.2

c6.95.2

Bāṇa was not a दाक्षिणात्य and hence he cannot be charged with any local patriotism or partiality for दाक्षिणात्यs. दण्डी does not employ the word रीति at all. Instead, he uses the word मार्ग throughout (काव्यादर्श I. 9, 40, 67, 75, 101). He expressly says that there are several dictions distinguished from each other by nice distinctions, but that he will describe only two, वैदर्भ and गौडीय, because the points of distinction between the two are very clear. It is interesting to note that he refers to गौडीय मार्ग or पद्धति as पौरस्त्य and employs the word डम्बर found in बाण as regards गौडs (इत्यनालोच्यवैषम्यमर्थालङ्कारडम्बरौ । अवेक्षमाणा ववृधे पौरस्त्या काव्यपद्धतिः ॥ I. 50). Vide also काव्यादर्श I. 83 for पौरस्त्य. On the other hand he applies the word दाक्षिणात्य to वैदर्भमार्ग (अतो नैवमनुप्रासं दाक्षिणात्याः प्रयुञ्जते ॥ I. 60). In I. 92 he employs the word वर्त्म and states that the Gauḍas are very fond of अत्युक्ति. Even the काव्यमी. chap. VII. (p. 30) employs the word मार्ग ‘किमर्थं पुनरुपदेश्योर्ब्रह्मपरमेश्वरयोर्वाक्यमार्गयोरुपन्यासः—इत्याचार्याः:.’ The सरस्वतीकण्ठाभरण states that the different ways such as Vaidarbha are known as mārga ‘वैदर्भादिकृतः पन्थाः काव्ये मार्ग इति स्मृतः । रीतिरिति धातोः सा व्युत्पत्त्या रीतिरुच्यते ॥ II. 27th कारिका (Nir. ed. of 1934). The ध्व. (III. 52 p. 290) remarks: ‘एतद्ध्वनिवर्धनेन निर्णीतं काव्यतत्त्वमस्फुटस्फुरितं सदशक्रनुवद्भिः प्रतिपादयितुं वैदर्भी गौडी पाञ्चाली चेति रीतयः प्रवर्तितः’. This is probably a reference to वामन.