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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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various authors who testify to his ability as a poet, and who show
that, in the estimation of later generations, he was deemed worthy
to be classed with such names as Kālidāsa, Bhavabhūti, Subandhu,
and the ever-present Bāņa. Two of these stanzas have already
been given (p. 5 and 12), but for convenience they may be re-
peated here. The list follows.
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THE STANZAS ASCRIBED TO TRILOCANA¹
hṛdi lagnena bāṇena yan mando 'pi padakramaḥ
bhavet kavikurangāṇām capalam tatra kāraṇam
tavat kavivihangānām dhvanir lokeşu śasyate
yāvan no višati frotre mayüramadhuradhvaniḥ²
'When slow is the step of deer-like poets by reason of the arrow (Bāṇa)
Clinging in their hearts, agitation is the cause of it.
The noise of bird-like poets is praised in the world until
The honied notes of the peacock (Mayüra) enter our ears.'
1 Of Trilocana but little is known. A poet of that name is said, in the
Jyotirvidabharaṇa (Weber, in ZDMG, 22. 722), to have adorned the assem-
bly-hall of Vikramaditya, but if this statement is correct, it must have been
a different Trilocana who praised Bāņa and Mayüra, since Vikramaditya
antedates (cf. above, p. 52, note 2) the seventh century, according to the
conclusions of modern scholars. Besides the stanzas hrdi, etc., here cited,
the Paddhati of Särngadhara ascribes to Trilocana a stanza beginning
uccaiḥ sthana- (Peterson, Paddhati, no. 764); so also the Subhasitarat-
nabhāṇḍāgāra, p. 332, stanza 37. He is also said to have composed a work
entitled Parthavijaya, as the following stanza of Rajasekhara testifies:-
kartum trilocandd anyaḥ kaḥ parthavijayam kşamaḥ
tadarthaḥ śakyate draştum locanadvayibhiḥ katham
'Who else but Trilocana is able to compose a Parthavijaya? How can
its purport be perceived by the two-eyed?' [i.e., if it took a three-eyed
(trilocana) man to compose it, how can a two-eyed mortal understand it?]
This stanza is ascribed to Rajasekhara in the Saktimuktavali (cf.
Peterson, in JBRAS, vol. 17, part 1, p. 58) and in the Hariharavali of
Harikavi (cf. Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, vol. 2, p. 63). Concerning
the date of Trilocana, it can only be said that he antedates Rajasekhara,
900 A.D. (cf. above, p. 5), who mentions him in the stanza just cited.
These stanzas are ascribed to Trilocana in the Paddhati of Särngadhara
(cf. Peterson's edition, no. 186-187, from which I quote the text here
given, and Aufrecht, ZDMG, vol. 27, p. 32), and in the Subhasitaratna-
bhandagara (p. 53, stanzas 24 and 34). In the Saktimuktavali (cf. Peter-
son, in JBRAS, vol. 17, part 1, p. 59, no. 17), the first stanza, referring
to Bāṇa, is ascribed to Rajasekhara. Ettinghausen cites the second floka,
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various authors who testify to his ability as a poet, and who show
that, in the estimation of later generations, he was deemed worthy
to be classed with such names as Kālidāsa, Bhavabhūti, Subandhu,
and the ever-present Bāņa. Two of these stanzas have already
been given (p. 5 and 12), but for convenience they may be re-
peated here. The list follows.
•
THE STANZAS ASCRIBED TO TRILOCANA¹
hṛdi lagnena bāṇena yan mando 'pi padakramaḥ
bhavet kavikurangāṇām capalam tatra kāraṇam
tavat kavivihangānām dhvanir lokeşu śasyate
yāvan no višati frotre mayüramadhuradhvaniḥ²
'When slow is the step of deer-like poets by reason of the arrow (Bāṇa)
Clinging in their hearts, agitation is the cause of it.
The noise of bird-like poets is praised in the world until
The honied notes of the peacock (Mayüra) enter our ears.'
1 Of Trilocana but little is known. A poet of that name is said, in the
Jyotirvidabharaṇa (Weber, in ZDMG, 22. 722), to have adorned the assem-
bly-hall of Vikramaditya, but if this statement is correct, it must have been
a different Trilocana who praised Bāņa and Mayüra, since Vikramaditya
antedates (cf. above, p. 52, note 2) the seventh century, according to the
conclusions of modern scholars. Besides the stanzas hrdi, etc., here cited,
the Paddhati of Särngadhara ascribes to Trilocana a stanza beginning
uccaiḥ sthana- (Peterson, Paddhati, no. 764); so also the Subhasitarat-
nabhāṇḍāgāra, p. 332, stanza 37. He is also said to have composed a work
entitled Parthavijaya, as the following stanza of Rajasekhara testifies:-
kartum trilocandd anyaḥ kaḥ parthavijayam kşamaḥ
tadarthaḥ śakyate draştum locanadvayibhiḥ katham
'Who else but Trilocana is able to compose a Parthavijaya? How can
its purport be perceived by the two-eyed?' [i.e., if it took a three-eyed
(trilocana) man to compose it, how can a two-eyed mortal understand it?]
This stanza is ascribed to Rajasekhara in the Saktimuktavali (cf.
Peterson, in JBRAS, vol. 17, part 1, p. 58) and in the Hariharavali of
Harikavi (cf. Peterson, Search for Skt. MSS, vol. 2, p. 63). Concerning
the date of Trilocana, it can only be said that he antedates Rajasekhara,
900 A.D. (cf. above, p. 5), who mentions him in the stanza just cited.
These stanzas are ascribed to Trilocana in the Paddhati of Särngadhara
(cf. Peterson's edition, no. 186-187, from which I quote the text here
given, and Aufrecht, ZDMG, vol. 27, p. 32), and in the Subhasitaratna-
bhandagara (p. 53, stanzas 24 and 34). In the Saktimuktavali (cf. Peter-
son, in JBRAS, vol. 17, part 1, p. 59, no. 17), the first stanza, referring
to Bāṇa, is ascribed to Rajasekhara. Ettinghausen cites the second floka,