346. 348 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

348 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

दिवदित्युपदेशं ... करोतीति'. Vide my notes on साहित्यद० p.4. Most of the works on Poetics more or less ccho the words quoted above. Vide उज्ज्वलनीलमषि pp. 55-56 quoting भागवत X 'वर्तितव्यं शमिच्छ- दधिर्भक्तवन्न तु कृष्णवत । धत्येवं भक्तिशास्त्रायां तात्पर्यस्य विनिशायः। रामादिवद् वर्तितव्यं न कचिद्रावणादिवत्।'. The word प्रीति (among प्रयोजनs) men- tioned by भामह, वामन, सर क. may be construed with the poet also. The poet finds supreme delight in creating an artistic poem. The words सध: परनिर्वृतये of मम्मट (immediate higher and delightful experience) are more definite and appropriate. Even an early writer like Asvaghosa states that whatever else he included in his work other then relevant to the subject of Moks1 was included bec iuse of the rules of poetics in the same way as a bitter medicine is mixed with honcy in order that it may bepleasant to drink (Saundaranandi 18.63 यन्मोक्षात्कृतमन्य- दत्र हि मया तत्काव्यधर्मात्कृतं पातुं तिक्तमिवौषधं मधुयुतं हृदं कथ स्यादिति). 7 The equipment of the poet (काव्यहेतु). Most of the writers on Poetics lay down that the things essential to the making of a true poct are three, प्रतिभा (Imgination), व्युत्पचति: (culture) and अभ्यास (constant prictice). नैसर्गिकी च प्रतिभा श्रुतं च बडु निर्मलम्। अमन्दश्वाभियोगोस्या: कारसं काव्यसम्पदः ॥' काव्यादर्श I. 103; 'काव्यं तु जायते जातु कस्यचित्प्रतिभावतः। ... शब्दाभिधेये विशाय कृत्वा तद्विदुपास- नाम्। विलोक्यान्यनिबन्धांश् कार्य: काव्यक्रियादरः।' भामह I. 5 and 10; 'त्रितयमिदं व्याप्रियते शक्तिर्व्युत्पत्तिरभ्यासः ॥' रुद्रट I. 14; 'शक्तिनिपुता लोकशास्त्र- काव्याधवेक्षयात्। काव्यशशिकयाभ्यास इति हेतुस्तदुद्द्वे ।।' काव्यप्र. I. 8; vide also एकावली J.12; वाग्भटालक्कार I. 3 ;- अलक्कगारशेखर (p. 4). There were other writers who reg irded pratibha as the sole equipment required for the making of a genuine poet. राजशेखर SIys 'सा (शक्तिः) केवलं काव्ये हेतुरिति यायावरीयः' (p. 11); 'प्रतिभैव च कवीनां काव्य- करणकारखम्। व्युत्पत्त्यम्यासी तस्या एव संस्कारकारकौ न तु काव्यहेतू' अलक्कारतिलक of वाग्भट (p.2): तस्य च 'कारणं कविगता केव्रला प्रतिभा' रसगक्गाधर p.8. प्रतिभा is that power whereby the poet sees the subjects of his poem as steeped in beauty and gives to his readers in apt language a vivid picture of the beauty he has seen. It is a power where- by the poet not only calls up in his reader's heart the impre- ssions of faded experiences, but whereby he presents ever new, wonderful and charming combinations and relations of things never before experienced or thought by the ordinary man. A poet is one who is a seer, a prophet, who sees visions and possesses the additional gift of conveying to others less fortunate through the medium of language the visions he has