17. 14 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

14 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

out the enumeration in Upajāti, while the Sāhitydarpana and some others give the names as in the Anustubh verses. VI. It has already been stated that chap. 24 of the K. M. ed. is distributed among two chapters 34 and 35 of the Ch. ed. and that chap. 36 and 37 of K. M ed. become one chapter (36) in Ch. ed. and in अभिनवभारती. VII. In the K. M. edition there are 334 verses in chapter 31, while in the Ch. ed. there are 545 in the same chapter. The new K. M. edition notes ( on p. 520 ) that a block of 92 verses is added in one ms. after the verse आकारवृत्तमन्यत्स्यात् चतुष्क त्रिकमेव वा। ( verse 293 in K. M.ed. and 397 in Ch. ed ). Mr. Kavi notes ( in Intro. to vol. II p. XIV ) that Abhinava's text omits only about half of these verses. Mr. Kavi (Intro. to vol. I p. 7) states that he secured 40 mss. of the text of the Nātyaśāstra and admits that no two of them agree completely ( ibid. p. 9 ). He also says that there are according to him two recensions of the text of the Natyasastra, the northern one and the southern one. The latter is, according to him, the earlier one and the former later. From the statements Mr. Kavi makes in his two Introductions to the two volumes already published and in the footnotes in the two volumes, it appears that the mss. material for the constitution of the text of the Abhinavabharati is quite unsatisfactory. There is no ms. which contains the full text of the Abhinavabharati on the 36 chapters. The commentary afaayRat itself sometimes appears in two recensions and differs from ara himself. Vide a paper by Prof. Manmohan Ghosh in I. H. Q. vol. X pp. 161-163 for some examples. Mr. Kavi was not able to secure Abhinavagupta's commentary on the 7th and 8th chapters of the Natyasastra (except a few passages at the beginning of the 7th). As the text of the commentary has to be constituted from different incomplete mss. found at places far apart, the text of the commentary presented would be a patched-up and eclectic one and, therefore, unsatisfactory from a critical point of view. As a portion of Abhinava's commentary on the last verses of the 5th chapter of the Nātya- śāstra was not available, Mr. Kavi added his own comment thereon (vol. I pp. 253-264). This has misled some scholars into thinking that it was Abhinava's commentary, in spite of Mr. Kavi's note at the bottom of p. 253. He should have