164. 162 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

162 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

Calcutta Sanskrit Series brought out an edition of the sao alone with a modern commentary called wavr by Madhu- sudan Misra. This edition does not specify the mss. on which they are based. Such editions are of little value and appear to be copies of the K. M. edition. The eao was translated into German by Dr. Jacobi in Z. D. M. G. vol. 56 pp. 18-60, 311-343, 392-410, and vol. 57 pp. 586-615, 710-789. Dr. Jacobi made several suggestions about the correct readings and other matters, most of which have been accepted by later writers. One feels serious doubts about the genuineness of several verses printed as kārikās in the K. M. edition. Later on this will be discussed in connection with one or two kārikas. The kārikas in the 4th Uddyota appear to be later as pointed out by Prof. S. P. Bhittacharya in his paper (6th All India O. Conference pp. 613-622). There is apparently no reason why kārikās II. 18-20 should have been printed as kārikas, when they are introduced in the afa (p. 106) with the words 'a- वार्थस्य संग्रहश्रोकाः' and they practically repeat the words and ideas of kārikas II. 15-17 and the afa thereon. This mistake has been acknowledged in the corrigenda. In the afa itself some portions arouse great suspicions. On p. 178 the qfa as printed contains the आर्या 'इति काव्यार्थविवेको योयं चेतश्चमत्कृतिविधायी। सूरिभिरनुसृतसारैरसमदुरज्ञोन विस्मार्य: ॥'. The K. M. editors note that out of their three mss. two do not contain this verse. They should have omitted it from the text and put it in a footnote. I: find on consulting five Devanagari mss. and two Sāradā mss. (No. 256 and 257 of the collestion of 1875-76 at B. O. R. I.) that none, of them contains this verse. It is certainly spurious. Another noticeable feature is, that out of the 112 kārikas of the Nir. text in the first three Uddyotas only .all+excepft eight as noted above-are in the śloka metre. But in the 4th Uddyota out of 17 karikas the last three are in the ruraar, मालिनी, and शिखरिणी metres. Besides, the Prakrit Gatha (rather mutilated) which occurs on p. 297 (K. M. edition) is not commented upon by the anraa as printed by Dr. De in Journal, Department of Letters, Calcutta, vol. IX. nor in the saferrer- पजिका (ms. in the B.'O. R.I.). At the outset one is confronted by two questions viz. whether all the three parts of the work are by the same author and, if they are not, then who is the author of the arftars and