143. KĀVYĀLAŃKĀRASŪTRA OF VĀMANA 141

KĀVYĀLAŃKĀRASŪTRA OF VĀMANA 141

treats of other अलक्ारs based more or less upon उपमा; the fifth अषि० (called प्रायोगिक) speaks of certain conventions to be observed by poets, such as not employing the same word twice, observance of rules of सन्धि in the padas of a verse except at the end of the first half, non-employment of words like ag at the beginning of a ura and points out how grammatical purity may be secured, examines and tries to explain away some apparent irregularitics in the works of poets of old. The last अध्याय (on शब्दशुद्धि) resembles the 6th परिच्छेद of भामह's 'work. But there is a differencce between the two. arHE (in VI. 32-60) illustrates certain formations of words based on Pāņini's sūtras that should be employed or not employed by poets and he generally follows the serial order of chapters and pādas of the Āstādhyāyī; while Vāmana (in V. 2. 1-92) takes up words (but not in the order of the chapters of the Astā- dhyāyi) that have been used or are likely to be used and shows how the use is wrong or may in some cases be explained away. For example, (in V. 2. 1) he says that the use of the word t as an एकशेषद्रन्द् (to represent रुद्रश्च रुद्राणी च) is not proper, if we read पा. I. 2. 67 with पा. IV. 1. 48. In the वृत्ति on V. 2. 1 he says the forms इन्द्री, भवौ, शर्वों are not proper. This appears to be aimed at भामह VI. 32 (सरूपरोषं तु पुमान् ख्तिया यत्र च शिष्यते। यथाह वरुणा- बिन्द्रौ भवी शर्वां मृडाविति ॥). In V. 2. 15 वामन says that the word बिम्बाघर frequently used by poets should be अवरबिम्ब if we consider पा. II. 1. 56 (उपमितं व्याघ्रादिभिः सामान्याप्रयोगे), but that word can be justified if it is taken as a मध्यमपदलोपिसमास (बिम्बाकारोऽघरः बिम्बाधरः). The अलक्ारs defined and illustrated (besides अनुप्रास, यमक and उपमा) are (in order): प्रतिवस्तूपमा, समासोक्ति, अप्रस्तुत०, अपह्नुति, रूपक, श्लेष, वक्रोक्ति, उत्प्रेक्षा, अतिशयोक्ति, सन्देह, विरोध, विभावना, अनन्वय, उपमेयोपमा, परिवृत्ति, क्रम, दीपक, निदर्शन, अर्थान्तर०, व्यतिरेक, विशेषोक्ति, व्याजस्तुति, व्याजोकि, तुल्ययोगिता, आन्षेप, सहोक्ति, समाहित, संसृष्टि, उपमारूपक, उत्प्रेक्षावयव (i.e. 33 in all). It will be noticed that arga does not define such figures as पर्यायोक्त, प्रेयः, रसवत्, ऊर्जस्वि, उदास, भाविक, सूचम Some of the definitions of वामन appear to be hased on भामह e.g. उपमा (भामह II. 30, वामन IV.2.1), विभावना (भामह I]. 77, वामन IV. 3.13). Among the authors and works that are expressly named are: कविराज (as a great poet, IV. 1. 10), कामन्दकीनीति (IV. 1.2.), कामशासत्र, छन्दोविचिति, नाममाला (a lexicon. I. 3.5), विशाखिल (a writer on कलाशास्त्र, I.3.7), शू द्रक (for works exhibiting श्लेषगुख, III. 2. 4), हरिप्रबोध for यमकs (IV. 1. 2). On III 2. 2 वामन says: 'साभिप्रायत्वं