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लोचन in J. of Dept. of Letters, Cal. Un.vol. IX. p. 42. That the work was called ध्वनि is clear from राजशेखर's verse (ध्वनिनाति- गभीरेख) quoted later on and from the fact that many writers speak of आानन्दवर्धन as ध्वनिकार Or-कृत (author of ध्व नि), and from certain colophons. So my statements about the possible names of the work are borne out or admitted. The work was called ध्वनि, also ध्वन्यालोक, काव्यालोक, सहृदयालोक and सहृदयहृदयालोक. Why were the two names ध्वन्यालोक and काव्यालोक given to the work ? काव्यालोक would mean only 'a peep into kavya or light or com- prehension of kavya'. Therefore, there is nothing absurd in suggesting that, just as eafa was the name of the work also called ध्वन्यालोक, so the word काव्य might have been a concise way of referring to काव्यालोक. Dr. Krishnamoorthy is fond of dubbing others' arguments as absurd (vide what he says about Mr. Goda Verma on p. 305 of I. H. Q. vol. 24). But he does not see what strange (not to say 'absurd' by way of imita- ting him) propositions he has advanced as discussed above on 'utsūtra-vyakhyana'. Besides, the learned writer adduces no evidence except the words 'kavyasyātmā dhvanir' for branding Dr. Verma's arguments as the 'height of absurdity'. Dr. Mookerjee (B. C. Law vol. 10 pp. 189-190) and following him Dr. Krishnamoorthy (I. H. Q. vol. 24 p. 193) place much reliance on the remarks of Locana about the penultimate verse in the vrtti : नित्याक्लिष्टरसाश्रथोचितगुशालक्कारशोभाभृतोर्यंस्माद्वस्तु समीडितं सुकृतिभि: सर्व समासादते। काव्याख्येडखिलसौख्यधाम्नि विवुधोधाने ध्वनिदशितः सोयं कल्पतरूपमानमहिमा भोग्योस्तु भव्यात्मनाम् ॥. In the first place, the verse is read as given above in all the three editions available to me and not as इत्यक्लिष्ट.1 In the 2nd place, even on the theory of non-identity the लोचन could very well explain the word rfa in the afar as meaning 'by the exposition given in the कारिका and वृत्ति'. One fails to understand how these words prove identity. Dr. Mookerjee thinks (B. C. Law vol. I. p. 190) that all lingering doubts about the identity of the authors of the कारिकाs and of the वृत्ति are completely dispelled by the last verse

1. The लोचन on this is 'इतीति कारिकातद्वृत्तिनिरूपयप्रकारेेत्यर्थः' in the Kasi S. Series edition p. 551. In the text printed by Dr. De (Journal, Dept. of Letters, Calcutta Un. vol. IX. at p. 40) the reading is इतीति कारिकातद्व्टत्तिनिरूपयोनेत्यर्थ: Most mss. at B.O.R. I. read नित्याक्लिष्ट०.