On an Anonymous Hemistich Cited in Vāmana's Kāvyālaṅkara-sūtra-vṛtti

KÄVYÄLAŃKĀRA-SŪTṚA-VṚITI Biswanath Bhattacharya Vamana's Kavyalankara-sutra-vṛtti, 5/1/11 [sarva-nāmnä'nusandhir vettic-channasya) contains the following anonymous citation: "tavapi ntlarpala-patra-caksuso mukhasya tad-reņu-samana-gandhinal" Chowkhamba edn. (Benares Sanskrit Series, Nos. 134 & 140), Benares, 1908, p. 155] Vamana introduces the above hemistich in course of his Vrtti to establish his point that the sarva-naman sabda, "tad-' can refer understandably to the upamana,

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भट्टाचार्य वामन की काव्यालंकारसूत्रवृत्ति ५.१.११ में उद्धृत अज्ञातकर्तृक अर्धश्लोक का शेष भाग खोजते हैं। जानाश्रयी छन्दोविचिति से वे पूरा पद्य प्राप्त करते हैं, उसे वंशस्थ छन्द में सिद्ध करते हैं, और स्पष्ट कहते हैं कि मूल ग्रन्थ अब तक अज्ञात है। Bhattacharya identifies the second half of an anonymous hemistich that Vamana quotes in his Kavyalankara-sutra-vrtti 5.1.11. He recovers the full verse from Janasraya's Chandoviciti 4.48, shows it to be a twelve-syllable vamsastha stanza, and notes that its source still remains untraced.

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