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are descriptions of genre scenes. They are veritable word-pic-
tures, characterized by the usual Hindu wealth of detail, and are
excellent specimens of descriptive poetry.
The twelfth stanza, for lack of a better name, I have called
the Maxim on Separation.'
"
Four of the five remaining stanzas deal with mythological sub-
jects. They are found in the Saduktikarṇāmṛta¹ (one of them
is found as well in the Padyavali and in the Krṛṣṇakarnāmṛta),
and the names I have given them are in keeping with the titles
of the Saduktikarṇāmṛta chapters in which they are included.
I have called them 'The Burning of the City of Tripura,' 'The
Anger of Umā,' 'The Claws of Narasimha,' and 'The Dream of
Krsna.'
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The sixteen stanzas just mentioned will be found reproduced
and translated on pages 229-242 of this volume. The seventeenth
stanza is found in the hitherto unpublished Sūktimuktāvali of
Jalhana, and I have, unfortunately, been unable to secure a copy
of it.
THE ARYAMUKTĀMĀLĀ WRONGLY ASCRIBED TO MAYŪRA
A work entitled Āryamuktāmālā has been ascribed to Mayura's
pen by Bühler; and Aufrecht and Ettinghausen, evidently ac-
cepting Bühler's statement, have included the Āryamuktāmālā in
the lists which they have given of Mayura's writings. This
view is, however, certainly incorrect, for the Aryāmuktāmālā is,
1 The Saduktikarnāmṛta, an anthology, compiled by Sridhara Dāsa, and
completed by him in 1205 A.D. (cf. Rājendralala Mitra, Notices of Skt.
MSS, vol. 3, p. 134, no. 1180, Calcutta, 1876), has been partially edited
(376 out of 2380 stanzas) by Rāmāvatāra Śarmā, in the Bibliotheca Indica
Series, Calcutta, 1912. Thomas (Kavindravacanasamuccaya, introd., p.
67-68) shows that only the four stanzas I have cited are ascribed to
Mayura in the Saduktikarnāmṛta.
Bühler, Catalogue of Skt. MSS contained in Private Libraries of
Gujarat, etc., Fascicle 2, p. 72, Bombay, 1872.
& Ettinghausen, Harşa Vardhana, p. 96, 124; cf. Aufrecht, Catalogus
Catalogorum, vol. I, p. 432.
are descriptions of genre scenes. They are veritable word-pic-
tures, characterized by the usual Hindu wealth of detail, and are
excellent specimens of descriptive poetry.
The twelfth stanza, for lack of a better name, I have called
the Maxim on Separation.'
"
Four of the five remaining stanzas deal with mythological sub-
jects. They are found in the Saduktikarṇāmṛta¹ (one of them
is found as well in the Padyavali and in the Krṛṣṇakarnāmṛta),
and the names I have given them are in keeping with the titles
of the Saduktikarṇāmṛta chapters in which they are included.
I have called them 'The Burning of the City of Tripura,' 'The
Anger of Umā,' 'The Claws of Narasimha,' and 'The Dream of
Krsna.'
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The sixteen stanzas just mentioned will be found reproduced
and translated on pages 229-242 of this volume. The seventeenth
stanza is found in the hitherto unpublished Sūktimuktāvali of
Jalhana, and I have, unfortunately, been unable to secure a copy
of it.
THE ARYAMUKTĀMĀLĀ WRONGLY ASCRIBED TO MAYŪRA
A work entitled Āryamuktāmālā has been ascribed to Mayura's
pen by Bühler; and Aufrecht and Ettinghausen, evidently ac-
cepting Bühler's statement, have included the Āryamuktāmālā in
the lists which they have given of Mayura's writings. This
view is, however, certainly incorrect, for the Aryāmuktāmālā is,
1 The Saduktikarnāmṛta, an anthology, compiled by Sridhara Dāsa, and
completed by him in 1205 A.D. (cf. Rājendralala Mitra, Notices of Skt.
MSS, vol. 3, p. 134, no. 1180, Calcutta, 1876), has been partially edited
(376 out of 2380 stanzas) by Rāmāvatāra Śarmā, in the Bibliotheca Indica
Series, Calcutta, 1912. Thomas (Kavindravacanasamuccaya, introd., p.
67-68) shows that only the four stanzas I have cited are ascribed to
Mayura in the Saduktikarnāmṛta.
Bühler, Catalogue of Skt. MSS contained in Private Libraries of
Gujarat, etc., Fascicle 2, p. 72, Bombay, 1872.
& Ettinghausen, Harşa Vardhana, p. 96, 124; cf. Aufrecht, Catalogus
Catalogorum, vol. I, p. 432.