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much importance to afas; (4) he omits the treatment of guņas; (5) In his alankāra called a he makes a very near approach to the theory of saa sense being the main point in a poem. The अलं. स. p. 6 refers to this special point about रद्रट. The सङ्गीतरत्नाकर (p.82 of Anan. ed.) mentions a रुद्रट as सभ्जीताचार्य. But there is nothing to show that he was the same as the author of the काव्यालक्कार The date of Rudrata can be settled with a good deal of certainty. He defines more figures than भामह, दएडी and उङ्ट and his treatment is precise and scientific. He is, therefore, somewhat later than these writers. He is quoted by numerous writers from the tenth century downwards. राजशेखर in his काग्यमीमांसा (p.31) mentions him by nam: 'काकुतक्रोक्तिर्नाम शब्दा- लक्कारोयमिति रुद्रट: and quotes (onp. 57) the verse चक्र दहतारं चक्रन्द हतारं (रुद्रट III. 4). प्रतीहारेन्दुराज frequently quotes the verses of without actually naming him (vide pp. 11, 31, 34, 42, 43, 49, where ₹z 8. 40, 8.89, 8. 95, 7. 35, 7. 36 and 12. 4 are respectively quoted). In the दशरूपकटीका by धनिक (on IV. 35), रुद्रट (XII. 4) is quoted. The लोचन (p. 53) quotes रुद्रट's definition of भाव (VII. 38) and his example. मम्मट quotes him by name (IX p. 521 Va.) and criticizes his views about हेतु, समुच्चय and व्यतिरेक (क्षीय: क्षीखोपि शशी etc.). Therefore रुद्रट is not later than about 900 A. D. 3Te in his commentary on the first verse of the योगयात्रा of Varahamihira (of which there is a ms. in the Bhau Daji collection in the B. B. R. A. S.) names « and quotes his definition of अनन्वय and his example of it also (viz. काव्यालक्कार 8. 11 and 12). At the end of his commentary on the बृहज्जातक published in the Harikrishna Nibandha series (Benares 1934) there are a few verses one of which says that the commentary was composed in śaka 888 (i.e. in 966 A.D.). But great doubt is cast on the genuineness of these verses by two matters, viz those verses are absent from Utpala's commentary ir a ms. (D. C. No. 177 of A 1882-83) at the BORI, Poona. The 2nd matter is that in a paper by the great astronomer and expert in cunei- form texts in Babylon, Prof. Otto Neugebauer, published in the Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Belgium for 1957 (pp. 133- 140) about the Greek translation of Abu Ma'shar's version on dreșkāņas where it is said on p. 134 n. 3 that Abu Ma'shar died in 886 A.D., that his translation contains a passage about the 3rd Dreșkāņa of Aries that belongs to Utpala's commentary. This