annotations by Böhtlingk in his copy of Hall’s edition, which is now in my possession. The references so obtained I have supplemented by tracing to their source many additional quotations; but a number of the passages quoted by Dhanika still remain unidentified, chiefly because the works from which they were drawn are unpublished or no longer extant. When a stanza not otherwise located appears in native anthologies (such as the Śārṅgadharapaddhati or the Subhāṣitāvali), in a later work (such as the Bhojaprabandha), or in Böhtlingk’s Indische Sprüche, I have given its number in such collection in place of the usual phrase ‘unidentified stanza;’[1] I have also added references to these works in a number of cases where the original source is known, in order to show that the passage is one that is familiar and often quoted. The editions that have been consulted are recorded on pages xiv–xvii, above.
The notes in this volume. Such explanatory material as it seemed advisable to include in the present work will be found appended to the several sections under the heading ‘Notes,’ the necessity of turning to another part of the book for annotations being thus entirely obviated. Among the matters included in the notes may be mentioned particularly the variant readings referred to above (p. xxxix), explanations regarding Dhanaṃjaya’s terminology and definitions, divergencies between the Daśarūpa and other dramaturgic treatises, references to the work of scholars in this field (especially Lévi, Regnaud, and Schmidt), and—a feature to which I have devoted a great amount of time and labor—a collection of references to parallel passages in other Hindu works, chiefly dramaturgic and rhetorical.
These references to native treatises—which will enable the reader to make a comparative study of any special point without a laborious search of his own—are as exhaustive as the material at hand would allow. After a preliminary consultation of the references given in the works of Lévi, Regnaud, and Schmidt
- ↑ As, for example, at 2. 42; 4. 15, 17, 27, 28.
