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recognized long before Abhinavagupta ( i. e. centuries before 1000 A. D. ) and that Abhinava knew that there were two recensions of N. S. Udbhata in his काव्यालक्कारसारसंग्रह (IV. 5.) mentions nine rasas (शृङ्गारहास्य ... नकाः । बीभत्सान्गुतशान्ताक्ष नव नाटचे रसाः स्मृता: ॥). The भावप्रकाशन (G. O. S. ed., pp. 46-48) appears to hold that Vasuki added Santarasa. Apart from the question whether any reliance is to be placed on this piece of informa- tion, it would follow from the facts brought out above that Sāntarasa was recognized in the mss. of the Nātyaśāstra at some time after 400 A. D. and before 750 A. D. II. At the end of chapter 5 about 40 verses (KM 181-220, Ch. 176-215 ) are omitted in several mss. and it is noteworthy that Abhinava does not comment on them. They were probably taken over from Nandikeśvara ( vide Intro. to vol. I p. 10). III. Chapters 9 ( verses 207 ) and 10 ( verses 55) of the Ch. ed. form one chapter 9 ( verses 267 ) in K. M. edition. Abhinavagupta also puts the two as one. IV. At the beginning of the 15th chap. on metres, Abhinava notes that there were two recensions: तत्रे हाध्याये भरतमुनि- कृतमिति त्रिकर्मकारादिभिः कैश्षित् किंचिल्लक्षणं स्वीकृतमिति द्विविधः पाठो दृश्यते। मध्ये च चिन्तनाय (? चिरन्तनेषु ) पुस्तकेषूभयमपि पठ्यते इति। अ्र. भा. vol. II pp. 252-253. The original KM ed. agrees with the latter. V. In chap. 16 of the K. M. ed., and chap. 17 of Ch. ed., the 36 Laksaņas of Nātya are enumerated in five anustubh verses, but in chap. 16 of the G. O. S. edition the enumeration is made in four Upajati verses. Further, the order of the 36 Laksanas is not the same in the two lists and only 17 names are common in both. A. B. remarks that Bharata himself employs other names for the Laksanas which are different from those enumerated by him, that it is due to this that in the mss. there is variation in the names and order of Laksanas and that it follows the tradition of the author's guru ( Tota ) as to the names and, order . ( T मतान्तरेष भरतमुनिरेवान्यथाप्युद्देशलक्षयेन नामान्तररपि च व्यवहारं करोति तत एव पुस्तकेषु भेदो दृश्यते तं च दर्शयिष्यामः । पठितोद्वेशक्रमस्त्वस्मदुपाध्यायपरम्परागतः। on XVI. 4, vol. II p. 298). This shows. that in nfna's day there were two recensions of the chapter on reus. Vide Dr. Raghavan's paper on Lakşaņas in J. O. R. Madras, vol. VI pp. 54-82. धनिक on दशरूप 4. 78 and राघवभट्ट in भर्थचोतनिका set