181. DHVANYĀLOKA 179

DHVANYĀLOKA 179

As regards the quotations from the अभिनवभारती (quoted in the note below) which seem to regard आानन्दवर्धन as the author of the kārikas and the vrtti we have to remember several facts. Abhinava's teacher in the exposition of the Dhvanyaloka was Induraja (whose explanations he implicitly follows as stated in Locana pp. 44, 227) ; the अभिनवभारती was composed sometime after the लोचन (as the passages in the footnote expressly state).1 His teacher in the Nātyasāstra was a different one viz. Bhatta Tota who was the author of a work called Kavyakautuka on which Abhinava wrote a vivarana.2 For भट्टतोत and the great respect paid to him by अभिनव० and for following his views in preference to those of others, vide the 3rd introductory verse to अ.भा. ('सद्विप्रतोतवदनोदितनाव्यवेदतत्त्वार्थमर्थि- जनवान्छितसिद्धिह्ेतोः । माहेश्वराभिनवगुप्तपदप्रतिष्ठः संच्िप्तवृत्तिविधिना विशदी- करोति ॥I) and pp. 3, 292-93, 310 of vol. I., pp.67,216,395,423, 440-441 of vol. II. of the भ. भा. and pp. 78 (six verses of Bhatta

1. अभिनवगुप्त in his commentary on भरत (chap.7 vol. I.p. 344) refers to his commentary on ध्वन्यालोक as सहृदयालोकलोचन; 'स्वशब्दानाभिधेयत्वं हि रसादीनां ध्वनिकारादिभिदर्शितम्। तच्च मदीयादेव तद्विवरखात्सहृदयालोकलोचनादवधारणीयमिह तु यथावसरं वच््यत एव. Again on भरत 16. 5 vol. II. pp. 299-300 अभिनवगुप्त says "एतमेवार्थ सम्यगानन्दवर्धनाचार्योपि विविच्य न्यरूपयत् । 'ध्वन्यात्मभूते०' (ध्व. II. 21) इत्युक्त्वा क्रमेय 'विवता तत्परत्वेन०' (ध्व. II. 22) इत्यादिना ग्रन्थसन्दर्भेष सोदाहरेन। तच्चास्माभि: सहृदयालोकलोचने तद्विवरणे विस्तरतो व्याख्यातभिति". As shown below the work was called सहृदयहृदयालोक by राघवभट्ट and in the colophons of certain mss. That was probably its original name and it meant 'the light of or on the heart or meaning of sahrdaya'. This would be an additional argument for postulating सहृदय as the name of the author of the कारिकाs. In course of time aay came to be dropped and the work was called simply सहदयालोक as the quotations from the भ. भा. show. आलोक is used in the sense of 'light' by the कारिका I. 9 (आलोकाथी यथा दीपशिखायां यत्नवाअन:) and in the sense of 'proper knowledge or understanding' in कारिका II. 14 (बुद्धिरासादितालोका सवंत्रैव भवि- ष्यति), where the लोचन explains 'आसादितः भालोकः अरवगमः सम्यग्व्यु- त्पत्तिर्यया' (p. 84). 2. This was composed by भभिनव even before the लोचन; vide p. 221 'स चास्मदुपाध्यायभट्टतौतेन काव्यकौतुके, भस्मामिश्र तदिषरय बहुतरकृतनियय: &c.'