123. 120 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

120 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

580-590)-भतंहरि1 author of वाक्यपदीय (died about 650 A.D.)- अयादित्य author of काशिका (died 661 A. D.)-दरिडन (about 660- 680)-न्यास of जिनेन्द्रवुद्धि (about 700)-भामइ (about 725-750)- माघ (who in शिशुपालवय II. 112 mentions वृत्ति and न्यास) about 750 नृपतुर्, who namesमाघ inिाजमर्ग I.31, about 825-850. (w) Attempts are made to fix the age of both भामह and दएडी by reference to parallel passages from early writers and it is argued that they are later than those poets. Unless the very words are quoted I am not at all disposed to attach weight to parallelism of thought. There is no monopoly in the realm of thought as was observed by the ध्वनिकारिका (IV.11. 'संवादास्तु भवन्त्येव बाडुल्येन सुमेघसाम्।') p. 306. It is said that दएडी's (I. 45) 'इन्दोरिन्दीवरधुति। लक्ष्म लक्ष्मीं तनोतीति प्रतीतिसुभगं वच: ।।' is taken from the शाकुन्तल I. Similarly 'प्रभामात्रं हि तरलं दृश्यते न तदाश्रयः' (काव्या. II. 129) may besaid to be a reminiscence of 'न प्रभातरलं ज्योतिरुद्ेति वसुषातलात' (शाकुन्तल I). So also काव्या. II 286 is similar to verses in the कुमार० and रघु०; and the words (भरत्नालोक्संहार्य- भवार्य सूयरश्मिभिः। दृष्टिरोधकरं यूनां यौवनप्रभवं तमः॥' (काग्या. II. 197) are supposed to have been suggested by बाख's words 'केवलं च निसगंत एवाभानुभेधयमरत्नालोकोच्छेद्यमप्रदीपप्रभापनेयमतिगहनं तमो यौवनप्रभवम्' (कादम्बरी, para 103 of my edition). Prof. Pathak (I. A. vol. 41 for 1912 at p. 237) thinks that Dandin's disquisition on the three kinds of कर्म (निवत्य, विकार्य and प्राप्य in काव्या. II. 240-241) is borrowed from the वाक्यपदीय Supposing for argument that the वाक्यपदीय was the first to make this distinction, this argument is not worth anything. According to Itsing's rather confused statements (Dr. Takakusu p. 180) the author of the वाक्यपदीय died about 650 A.D. The काशिका on पा. IV. 3. 88 appears to refer to it as शब्दार्थसम्बन्धीयप्रकरणं वाक्यपदीयम्. So दएडी, who, we have seen, flou- rished about 660-680 might have borrowed from the वाक्यपदीय. In the words 'नासिक्यमध्या परितश्वतुवणविभूषिता। अस्ति काचित्पुरी यस्याम्टवर्णाहया नृपाः ।' (काव्या. III. 112, an example of प्रहेलिका called संख्याता) the com. तरुयवाचस्पति sees a reference to काश्ी and to the Pallavas. In another place Dandin refers to a king

1. I-tsing (tr. by Takakusu p. 180) states that it was forty years since his death. The काशिका on पा. I. 3. 23 quotes from Bharavi's किराताजुनीय the quarter संशय्य कर्णादिषु तिष्ठते यः (III. 14).