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natirekācca vyanjakatvasya) and that the universalisation (Sadhāraņībhāva) of the subjective and the objective aspects of the æsthetic experience is due to the two powers of the poetic or dramatic composition, which had been assumed by Bhatta Nayaka for the first time. There are many other minor points, on which they differ, such as the conception of Natya, Bindu and Pratimukha etc.

THE TEXT OF THE NATYA SASTRA.

A careful study of the Abhinava Bharatī clearly reveals the fact that there were two recensions of the Natya Sastra (i) earlier and (ii) later. In the former, Bharata's text on Santa did exist. In the latter, it did not. These two recensions are clearly reflected in the two published texts of the Natya Sastra. (1) Published along with the Abhinava Bharati in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series and (2) published in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series. In the former we find the text on Santa. In the latter we do not.

In both the recensions, however, some stray remarks on Santa were present, as we know on the authority of Abhinava Bharatī, such as, "Kvacicchamah" and "Mokșe Capi Viraginah". But they are so few and short that they did not draw the attention of the less careful and un- critical readers.

EVIDENCE OF THE ABHINAVA BHĀRATI. The text of the Natya Sastra of Bharata, as given at the top of each page of the Abhinava Bharati, published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series, does not present correctly the text of the Natya Sastra as Abhinava had before him