Bhaṭṭi as Quoted in the Durghaṭavṛtti

The Durghatavṛtti is not unknown to the students of Sanskrit grammar. It is written by Saraṇadeva, the eastern grammarian, who flourished in the twelfth century. This vṛtti discusses the difficult usages in the Mahakavyas of Asvaghosa, Kalidasa, Bharavi and Bhatti etc. from the grammatical point of view. It also refers to the odd usages dramas

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शाह भट्टिकाव्य के उन सत्तर प्रयोगों का संग्रह करती हैं जिनका समर्थन शरणदेव ने बारहवीं शताब्दी की दुर्घटवृत्ति में किया — अन्य किसी काव्य से अधिक। यह वृत्ति प्राचीन पाठ तथा मैत्रेयरक्षित और भागवृत्तिकार के मत सुरक्षित रखती है, अतः वे इसे भट्टि के पाठ-संशोधन का साधन मानती हैं। Shah collects the seventy usages from the Bhaṭṭikāvya that Saraṇadeva defends in his twelfth-century Durghaṭavṛtti, more than he takes from any other poem. Because that vṛtti preserves older readings and the opinions of Maitreyarakṣita and the Bhāgavṛttikāra, she argues it can be used to correct Bhaṭṭi's printed text.

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