84. BHÂMAHA 81

BHÂMAHA 81

(VIII) to his edition of the प्रतापरुद्रयशोभूषण in the B. S. S. In 1927 P. V. Naganatha Sastry of Tanjore published the text based on four mss. with an English translation, notes and an Introduction. In 1928 Messrs. Batuk Nath Sarma and Baladeva Upadhyaya published in the Kashi S. Series the text with a lengthy Introduction. Unfortunately all these printed editions (including the last) are unsatisfactory. The mss. mate- rial is meagre and the editors do not explain many knotty points, nor do they bring together all the various readings in Bhamaha's text as quoted in many works and the explan- ations of his verses by numerous writers from the days of Udbhata, the Dhvanyaloka and Locana onwards. Besides, the editors of the last edition have been severely criticized by Prof. Pathak for their peculiar methods in the Introduction and for their failure to see that the text printed by them is grammatically correct or to make suggestions for the correc- tion of the text (vide Annals of the B. O. R. I. vol. XII. pp. 385-388, 392-395). A scholarly edition of Bhamaha's work is a great desideratum. In the following I have used the edition of 1928. Prof. D.T. Tatacharya of Tiruvadi brought out an edition in 1934 with the textof Bhamaha's work, a Sanskrit commentary called उद्यानवृत्ति composed by himself with an English and a Sanskrit Introduction and an English appendix on Ālankārikas (pp. I-XXXIV) which is a brief rehash of what has been said by many scholars long before him. In the English Introduction he has introduced much matter quite irrelevant to the work criticizing Max Muller, Goldstuckor, Macdonell, Prof. Rajwade and M. M. Ananta Krishna Sastri. In the Sanskrit Intro. he attacks Prof. A. Sankaran, Prof. K. S. Ramaswami Sastri and the present author in footnotes. The most important point viz. the description of the mss. on which his edition is based is touched nowhere. The काव्यालक्वार of भामह is divided into six परिचछेदs and con- tains about 400 verses (exactly 396, excluding the two verses at the end which roughly mention the number of verses on each of the five topics, viz. षष्ट्या शरीरं निर्णातं शतषष्टया त्वलङ्कतिः। पञ्चाशता दोषदृष्टि: ससत्या न्यायनियायः ॥ षष्टया शब्दस्य शुद्धि: स्यादित्येवं वस्तु- पञ्चकम्। उक्तंषड्भि: परिच्छेदभमिहेन क्रमेश वः ॥. In the Kashi edition the six ufteers have the following numbers of verses viz. 69, 96, 58, 50, 69, 66 (including the last two) i. e. in all 398. The