A 21-25 Kāvyālaṅkāravṛtti

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 21/25
Title: Kāvyālaṅkāravṛtti
Dimensions: 38 x 5 cm x 65 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Maithili
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Alaṅkāra
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1585
Remarks:

Reel No. A 21-25

Inventory No. 32489

Title Kāvyālaṃkārasūtravṛtti

Remarks Vāmanaʼs Kāvyālaṃkārasūtra with the autocommentary on it; in the sub-colophons as well as on the original index card the title reads Kāvyālaṃkāravṛtti.

Author Vāmana

Subject Alaṃkāra

Language Sanskrit

Reference BSP 2, p. 17, no. 37 (1/1585)

Manuscript Details

Script Old Bengali

Material palm-leaf

State incomplete (?); the MS itself should be complete but on the microfilm only fols. 1–36r and 37v are available

Size 38.0 x 5.0 cm

Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle, extending from top to bottom

Folios 36

Lines per Folio 4

Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin after a decorative element consisting of a long straight line and three small rings on the verso; the word śrīḥ is written in the middle of the right-hand margin on both sides of the folio, and the above-mentioned decoration is added after it

Date of Copying ŚS 1451 (?); dated in words

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 1/1585

Used for Edition no

Manuscript Features

The MS was probably written by the same scribe who wrote the MS of the Kāvyādarśa microfilmed on reel no. A 21/21. On the variety of the Old Bengali script used in this MS cf. Dimitrov 2002a, pp. 27–78.

In the BSP as well as on the original index card, the number of folios is given as 65. Since the very end of the work is cited in the BSP, the MS should have been intact at the time of the first cataloguer. The microfilm, however, contains only fols. 1–36r and 37v. Fol. 37v ends at the beginning of the commentary on sūtra 4.2.21. In the BSP, the following is cited from part of the MS not available on the reel:

,, ,, ,, dvitīyoʼdhyāya upamāvicāraḥ |
,, vṛttau prāyogike pañcamedhikaraṇe (!) prathamoʼdhyāyaḥ kāvyasamayaḥ |
,, ,, ,, ,, dvitīyoʼdhyaḥ (!) |
śrīmadācāryaVāmanaviracitāKāvyālaṅkārabṛttiḥ (!) samāptāḥ ||    ||

antimaṃ vākyam |
pārijātakusumena cāruṇā surendradevanivahena bhūtaye | kumbhadāraṇasabhāsabhājitaṃ bhāratīpadam upāṣmahe vayaṃ || śaśivāṇasamudrenduśāke…… śubhe | vyalikhad Vāmanagrantham |

Thus, according to the transcription of the partially mutilated date, our MS seems to have been written in the year 1451 of the Śaka era, i.e. 1529 AD.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ namo gaṇeśāya ||

praṇamya paramaṃ jyotir Vāmanena Kavipriyā |
kāvyālaṅkārasūtrāṇāṃ sve〇ṣāṃ vṛttir vidhīyate ||

kāvyaṃ grāhyam alaṅkarāt ||

kāvyaṃ khalu grāhyam upādeyaṃ bhavaty ala(2)ṅkārāt | kāvyaśabdo ʼyaṃ guṇālaṅkārasaṃskṛtayoḥ śabdārthayor varttate | bhaktyā tu śa〇bdārthamātravacano ʼtra gṛhyate || ko sāv alaṅkāra ity āha [[||]]

saundaryyam alaṅkāraḥ

ala(3)ṅkaraṇam alaṅkāraḥ kara⁅ṇavyutpa⁆ttyā tu punar alaṅkāraśabdo ʼyam upamādiṣu varttate | 〇 (fol. 1v1–3)

End (fol. 36)

apratītaguṇasādṛśyam asādṛśyam ||

apratitair eva guṇair eva yat sādṛśyaṃ ta(4)d apratītaguṇasādṛśyam asādṛśyaṃ yathā

grathnāmi kāvyaśaśinaṃ vitatārtharasmiṃ |

kāvyasya yat 〇 sādṛśyaṃ śaśinā tad apratīta(ṃ) guṇair iti nanu cārthānāṃ raśmitulyatve sati kāvyasya śaśi (fol. 36v3–4)

End (fol. 37)

⁅na virduddho ʼtiśayaḥ ||

viruddhasy. ..sya saṃgraho na⁆ (fol. 37r4)

Extracts

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau śārīre ʼdhikaraṇe pra(4)thamo ʼdhyāyaḥ prayojanaprastāvanā || (fol. 2r3–4)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau śārīre ʼdhikaraṇe dvitīyo ʼdhyāyo ʼdhikāraci〇ntārītiniścayaḥ || (fol. 5r4)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau śārīre (fol. 9v1) ʼdhikaraṇe tṛtīyo ʼdhyāyaḥ kāvyāṅgāni viśeṣāḥ samāptañ cedaṃ śārīraṃ pratha〇m⁅am a⁆dhikaraṇaṃ || ○ || (fol. 9r4–9v1)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau doṣadarśane ʼdhikaraṇe prathamo ʼdhyā〇yaḥ || ○ || (fol. 13v1)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau doṣadarśane dvitīye ʼdhikaraṇe dvitīyo ʼdhyāyaḥ kāvyārthado〇ṣavibhāvanaṃ cedaṃ samāptaṃ dvitīyam adhikaraṇam || (fol. 19r1–2)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau guṇavivecane tṛtīye ʼdhikaraṇe prathamo ʼdhyāyaḥ samāpto (fol. 24r1) guṇālaṅkāravivekaḥ śabdaguṇavivekaś ca || ○ || (fols. 23v4–24r1)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttau guṇavivecane tṛtīye ʼdhikaraṇe dvitī(fol. 28r1)yo ʼdhyāyo ʼrthaguṇavivekaḥ samāptañ cedaṃ tṛtīyam adhikaraṇaṃ || (fols. 27v4–28r1)

iti Kāvyālaṅkāravṛttāv ālaṅkārike ʼdhikara(2)ṇe caturthe prathamo ʼdhyāyaḥ śabdālaṅkāravicāraḥ || ○ || (fol. 32r1–2)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 21/25

Date of Filming 01-09-1970

Exposures 39

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks exp. 3 with fols. 1v–2r is of poor quality, the same folios being clearly legible on exp. 4; exp. 17 contains fols. 14v–15v, and exp. 18 fols. 15r–16r; the upper half of exp. 39 is damaged, while the lower half is out of focus, so that fol. 36v cannot be seen and fol. 37r is almost completely illegible; this is the last MS filmed on this reel.

Catalogued by DD

Date 18-01-2003

Bibliography

• Dimitrov, Dragomir 2002a : “Tables of the Old Bengali Script (on the basis of a Nepalese manuscript of Daṇḍin’s Kāvyādarśa)”, in: Śikhisamuccaya. Indian and Tibetan Studies. Edited by Dragomir Dimitrov, Ulrike Roesler and Roland Steiner. Wien 2002. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, 53), pp. 27–78.