A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras
by M. Seshagiri Sastri | 1901 | 1,488,877 words
These pages represent "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras"—a scholarly work that systematically details the vast collection of Sanskrit manuscripts held by the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras, now Chennai, India. The catalogue serves as an essential ...
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THE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS. 8665 Complete. This work is not, as its name may imply, a commentary on Dhananjaya's Dasarupaka; but it is a short treatise, mostly in the nature of a compilation, explaining the characteristics and the kinds of dramatic composition. Probably it forms the Nataka chapter of a comprehensive treatise on rhetoric and poetics like the Prataparudriya. Beginning: caturvidhairabhinayaissattvikangikapurvakaih | dhirodattadyavasthanukrtirnatyam rasasrayam || bhavasrayam tu nrtyam syat nrttam talalayasrayam | madhuroddhatabhedena tadduyam dvividham punah | lasyatandavabhedena natakadyupakarakam || tena nakhyena dasa rupakani bhavanti natakam saprakaranam bhanah prahasanam dimah | vyayogasamavakarau vithya ha mrga iti || rupayati darsa (ya) ti rasadikamiti rupakam | natyasrayatvena tesam nabheda- sanka | End : vastunetrrasastesam rupakanam hi bhedakah | vastu ca trividham proktam prakhyatotpadyamisratah || itihasanibandham yatprakhyatam tadudahrtam | kavikalpitamutpadyam misram sankirnamucyate || athehamrgah misramihamrge vrttam caturankam trisandhikam | martyadivyau caniyamannayakapratinayakau || dhiroddhatau striyam divyam hartukamau ca kamukim | avadham yuddhamanyonyamabhasarasayostayoh || prakriyeyam hi sakala kalita dasarupake | Colophon: iti dasarupakavivaranam || A 14 A