FIXING UP OF SOME VARIANTS FROM KALIDĀSA (Ref. Hemacandra's Kāvyānuśāsana)

This happens to be the third article of its type. The singular purpose of our effort is to point out that in fixing up the variants available in the works of Kalidasa, editors so far, including the most reputed ones such as Prof. S. K. Belvalkar, have sadly overlooked perhaps the most important research tool.

Transcribed from the prepared edition. This is the beginning of the article, not a summary — open the PDF to read it in full.

नन्दी का तीसरा लेख। उनका कहना है कि बेलवलकर सहित कालिदास के सम्पादकों ने अलंकारशास्त्र की उपेक्षा की है, जहाँ टीकाकार किसी पाठ को साधुपाठ या अपपाठ कहते हैं। वे अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तल के पाँच श्लोकों की परीक्षा हेमचन्द्र के काव्यानुशासन से करते हैं और उदाहरणों की अनुक्रमणिका देते हैं। Nandi's third paper on the subject. He argues that editors of Kālidāsa, Belvalkar included, have ignored the alaṃkāra literature, where commentators regularly judge a reading sādhupāṭha or apapāṭha. He tests five verses of the Abhijñānaśākuntala against Hemacandra's Kāvyānuśāsana and appends an index of the illustrations.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.