180. 178 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

178 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

The word काव्यजीवितभूत: employed by him pointedly refers to the first Karika 'काव्यस्यात्मा'. The three1 passages mentioned by Dr. Krishnamoorthy on pp. 182-183 can be explained in various ways. In the first place, the कारिकाs become part of the वृत्ति which explains them. The word व्याख्याय and निरूप्य refer to the वृत्तिकार as the agent of these actions and the word srT itself refers to him because the वृत्तिकार begins the discussion of असंलक्ष्यक्रमव्यंग्य in the first case by citing and explaining the कारिका 'यस्तु' (III. 2). The same re- marks apply to the words of the लोचन on p. 275 'एवं व्यंग्यस्वरूपं' &c. In the second place, it is not an invariable rule that the agent of the lyabanta and of the principal verb in the sentence should be the same. Even great poets like Kālidasa and Bharavi do not .observe this rule, as in रघुवंश I. 77(भवजानासि मां यस्मादतस्ते न भविष्यति। मत्प्रसूतिमनाराध्य प्रजेति त्वां शशाप सा ।) 2 and in किरातारजुनीय III. 21. In the third place, the two passages do not vividly and forcibly emphasize the identity as the non-identity is brought out very forcibly by the eight passages quoted by me (on pp. 165-166). Lastly, it has to be remembered that the कारिकाकार and tfoar had come to be identified, as shown later on, even before भभिनवगुप्त. So अभिनव did not harp every now and then upon the difference between the two. That a commentator often takes over the words from the original work and incor- porates them among his own remarks (even by using the first person) may be illustrated from several commentaries. To take one instance from the Vedantasūtras, I extract the follo- wing from Sankara's bhasya on III.4. 47 (सहकार्यन्तरविधिः पक्षेष तृंतीयं तद्तो विध्यादिवत) 'तस्माद्जाह्मय इति प्रशंसावादस्तथैवाथ मुनिरित्यपि भवितु- महँति समाननिर्देशत्वादिति। एवं प्राप्ते ब्रमः-सहकार्यन्तरविषिरिति'. I may cite another example from the लोचन itself (p. 22) 'अथोच्यते दृष्टैव कठिति तात्पर्यप्रतिपत्तिः किमत्र कुर्म इति तदिदं वयमपि नाक्ीकुमः। यद्ृक्याम :- 'तंद्रत्सचेतसां सोर्थो वाच्यार्थविमुखात्मनाम्। बुद्धौ तत्त्वावभासिन्यां माटित्येवावभासते॥'. This is कारिका I. 12.

1. Two of the passages are: (a) एवं कारिका व्याख्याय तदसंगृहीतमलच्यक्रमव्यङ्ग्यं प्रपन्चयितुमाह यस्त्विति। लोचन p. 159. (b) एवं व्यंग्यस्वरूपं निरूप्य सर्वंथा यत्तच्छून्यं तत्र का वार्तेति निरूपयितुमाह प्रधानेत्यादिना कारिकादयेन। लोचन p. 275 (old ed. pp. 219-220). 2. आाराधनस्य राजा कर्ता भवनस्य प्रजेति।