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कार as in the above passages, vide लोचन pp. 57, 86, 103, 127, 132, 140. It has further to be noted that the लोचन generally applies the epithet ग्रन्थकृत to theauthor of the वृत्ति and the exam- ples and the word मूलग्रन्थकृत or-कार to the author, of the कारिकाड (as in the passage quoted above from p. 166). On the words 'तथा चान्येन कृत एवात्र श्ोकः' ध्व. (p. 10) the लोचन says 'ग्रन्थकृत्समान- कालभाविना मनोरयनाम्ना'. If this मनोरथ be hcld to be identical with the मनोरथ mentioned above under Vamana as having flou- rished in the reign of Jayapida (राजत० IV. 497) then it is im- possible that he could have been a contemporary af आनन्दवर्धन. Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy supposes (I. H. Q. vol. 24 at p. 308) 'that the early age of आनन्द० and the old age of Manoratha synchronised'. Even this assumption has no foundation. Acc. to राजत० V. 34 the poet आनन्द० became famous as a poet in the reign of अवन्तिवर्म. The विषमवाणलीला, the भजुनचरित and the देवीशतक were, it appears, composed before the ध्वन्यालोक. That means that the ध्वन्यालोक was a work of a man of mature years and so भानन्दवर्धन as a critic (not as a poet) should be held to have be- come well-known probably about or after 875 A. D. If मनोरथ was to bea contemporary of आनन्द० and an adverse critic of आनन्दवर्धन's theory he must have lived right into the last quarter of the 9th century, while he began his life as a poet under जयापीड (779-813 A. D.) in the last quarter of the 8th century. So it would have to be supposed that he lived for more than 100 years and could at such an age ridicule आनन्दवर्धन. The ध्वन्यालोक names विषमबाणलीला and अजुनचरित; the देवीशतक also men- tions these two, but it is itself not named or quoted in the a-Tr- लोक. The देवीशतक is full of such tricks as यमकऽ, चित्रबन्ध. It was impossible for him to take pride in his देवीशतक when he deliver- ed the following dictum in धव. pp. 277-278 'इदानीन्तनानां तु न्याय्ये काव्यनयव्यवस्थापने क्रियमाे नास्त्येव ध्त्रनिव्यतिरिक्तः काव्यप्रकारः, यतः परिपाकवरतां कवीनां रसादितात्पर्यविरहे व्यापार एव न शोभते'. So स्व. must have been written many years after the देवीशतक, when आनन्दवर्धन had arriv- ed at far-reaching conclusions about the purpose of poetry on the basis of the ध्वनिकारिकाS. On the words सहृदयानामानन्द:' (ध्व. p. 13) the लोचन says 'भानन्द इति च ग्रन्थकृतो नाम तेन स एवानन्दवर्धनाचार्य एतच्छाखद्रारेय' etc.' p. 14; 'समासोक्त्याक्षेपयोरेकमेवोदाहरएं व्यतरद् ग्रन्थकृत्' (लोचन p. 44); 'एवमभिप्रायद्यमपि साधारोक्त्या ग्रन्थकृन्न्यरूपयत्' (p. 45); on the verse भाहूतोपि सहाय:, 'अत एव अन्थकारः सामान्येन' etc. (लोचन p. 70). The above quotations lead to the inference that the