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इति महामहेश्वराभिनवगुप्तविरचितायां भारतीयनाटयशास्त्रविवृतामि( नव)
arcu........................gatutsty: References.- For Abhinavagupta and his place in Sanskrit Poetics
see De's Sanskrit Poetics Vol. I, pp. 117-19 and for the bibliography p. 120 where Dr. De remarks “The Trivandrum Palace Ms contains only ch. 1-6, 9-13, 18 and 19. The Ms in the possession of Dr. Ganganath Jha of Benares of which he kindly furnished the present writer with a transcript, contains 1-6, 7 (incomplete ), 8-31 ; but there are numerous gaps especially in the last few chapters. It follows in general the Trivandrum Ms. A Ms has been recently acquired for the Madras Govt. Oriental Ms Library which is also incomplete. An edition of chaptets vi and vii ( on rasa and bhava ) is in preparation by the present writer. Thuis voluminous but learned commentary deserves to be
published. Editions.-- Tha text of the Natyaśāstra together with Abhinava
bhārati edited by Mr. M. R. Kavi has been announced in 4 Vols. in the G. 0. Series, Baroda, out of which No. XXXVI was published in 1926 as Vol. I, and No. LXVIII as Vol. II, in 1934. Mr. Kavi remarks in the Preface (p. I).“The commentary unfortunately being incomplete chapter VII in this volume and chapter VIII in the next one had to be printed without it”.
- Keith History of Sanskrit Literature Preface p. xvii) remarks about Baroda edition: “Of Abhivagupta's inportant commentary on the Nāțyaśāstra we have now the beginning of an edition, which unhappily is fundamentally uncritical ”. – Indian Historical Quarterly, vol. iii, pp. 859-68. – Andhra His. Res. Society Journal Vol. III (Parts 2, 3, 4)-p. 200-article by M. R. Kavi “The chief merit in Abhipava is that he never skips over difficult passages.”
