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blindly picks up (in I.H.Q. vol. 24 atp.186) the example cited by Dr. Pandey and does not care to read in the original the work on which Dr. Pandey relies in order to see whether the latter's arguments are sound and whether they are of any value whatever on the question in hand. Out of the several striking passages mentioned by me Dr. Bhattacārya emphasizes the one p. 149 (old ed. p. 121) where the वृत्ति has the expression यतश्च on which the लोचन remarks 'उक्त्मेव ध्वनिस्वरूपं तदाभासविवेकहेतुतया कारिकारोनुवदतीत्यभिप्रायण वृत्तिकृदुप- स्कारं ददाति। यतश्चेति'. One cannot understand why on the theory of identity the miaa should have employed these words stating that the वृत्तिकार adds a supplement or embellishment (उपस्कार) to what the arfrarr (i. e. to himself, on the theory of identity) says. Some capital is sought to be made by M. M. Kuppuswami Sastri (p. li in उपलोचन) and by Dr. Pandey (in his'Abhinava- gupta' pp. 135-136) of the apparent absence of a mingala Śloka at the beginning of the karikas and of the presence of a mangila in the vrtti. Several replies can be offered as against this. In the first place, the practice about a mingala at the beginning of each work is net observed invariably by all early writers. So far as I know, there is no mangila at the beginn- ing of Sabira's bhasya on Jaimini or at the beginning of Śankaracarya's bhasya on the Vedantasutras, or in Vatsyayan a's bhasya on the Nyayasutra, or in उद्योतकर's न्यायवार्तिक or in मगडनमिश्र'S विधिविवेक (to take only eminent early writers). Where the same author composes the sutras or karikas and the vrtti, the practice varies. Vāmana has apparently no mangala in his sūtras but he has one at the beginning of his vrtti. Mimmata his mangala kārika at the beginning of the Kavyaprakasa, but none in the vrtti. Udbhata commences his work on Alankāra without any mangala. The Alankarasarvasva has no mangala in the sutras, but has one only in the vrtti. Hemacandra has a mangala both at the beginning of his sūtras and in his vrtti, Alankāra- cūdāmaņi. Further, no particular form is prescribed. Pāņini is supposed to have performed mangala by employing the word 'vrddhi' at the beginning of his first sūtra and the Mahābhāșya says that the word सिद्ध was employed in the वार्तिक 'सिद्धे शष्दार्थ- aa-' for the same purpose. In the same way, the words काव्यस्यात्मा at the beginning of the कारिकाs may well serve as a