History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.99.3

c6.99.3

4-6) speaks of four rītis वैदर्भी, पाञ्चाली, लाटीया and गौडीया based upon the absence of compounds or the presence of a few or many compounded words. Rudraṭa (II. 19) speaks of five vṛttis of अनुप्रास viz. मधुरा, प्रौढा, परुषा, ललिता and भद्रा, all of which are based on the employment of certain letters and conjunct consonants, and his मधुरा and परुषा are like उपनागरिका and परुषा of काव्यप्रकाश. But रुद्रट's use of them is restricted to अनुप्रास alone. The नाट्यशास्त्र (14.36) mentions four प्रवृत्तिs, आवन्ती, दाक्षिणात्या, पाञ्चाली, ओड्रमागधी and states that प्रवृत्ति¹ is concerned with the dress, languages and manners of various countries and that the दाक्षिणात्या प्रवृत्ति is constituted by plenty of dancing, singing and music and with Kaiśikī and abhinaya of the limbs which is clever, pleasing and delicate. The सर. क. (II. 3) includes रीति and वृत्ति among the 24 śabdālaṅkāras and then mentions six varieties of रीति (वैदर्भी, पाञ्चाली, गौडीया, आवन्तिका, लाटीया, मागधी) and six of वृत्ति (viz. कैशिकी and the other three plus मध्यमआरभटी and मध्यमकैशिकी). In this welter of conflicting views I should like to quote the काव्यमी. (III. p. 9) 'तत्र वेषविन्यासक्रमः प्रवृत्तिः, विलासविन्यासक्रमो वृत्तिः, वचनविन्यासक्रमो रीतिः'. सागरनन्दिन् (ना. ल .र. को. p. 44) adopts the words विलास...वृत्तिः and provides that भारतीवृत्ति is the aṅga of वैदर्भी, गौडीय and पाञ्चाल rītis (p. 52, lines 1231-33), सात्वती is an aṅga of पाञ्चाली (p. 55 line 1302), कैशिकी is an aṅga of वैदर्भी (p.