189. DHVANYĀLOKA 187

DHVANYĀLOKA 187

of the afa which is set out below.1 Dr. Krishnamoorthy (I. H. Q.24 pp. 193-194) borrows wholesale the translation of Dr. Mookerjee, which is not quite accurate. There are. no corres- ponding words in the original verse (of K. M.) which can be rendered as 'for all ages'. Even taking the reading of Dr. De the meaning would be 'dormant for long'. The reasoning of both the Doctors does not appeal to me. o does not claim anything more than having explained what the essence of real poetry is. The word 'vyakarot' is important. The mea- ning of that word is made clear by the kārika I. 3 'a r: प्रसिद्धो यः प्रकाररूपमादिभिः ।. बहुधा व्याकृतः सोन्यः काव्यलक्ष्मविधायिभिः ॥'. Vide also I1I. 47. a -. states he explained the essence of true poetry. How that sentence establishes that he was the author of the karikas also is not clear to me. The karika (III. 47) says that the essence of poetry declared in the kārikās was dimly perceived by its predecessors who being unable to ex- plain it clearly set forth the doctrine of the ritis.ª The last verse simply echoes the words of the arfar III. 47 just as the words मे मीति: in कारिका II. 5 are explained as मामकीन: पक्: in वृत्ति. The वृत्ति is like the भाष्य of शङ्कर on the Vedantasutra. The sūtrakāra is a great man and Sankara is equally great (or some would say even greater). So the kārikākāra briefly described the essence of poetry, which Ananda explained at great length. Dr. Krishnamoorthy has not put a correct interpretation on the -words मामकीन: पत्: in the वृत्ति on II. 5 p. 86 (I. H. Q. vol. 24 p. 300). Dr. Satkari Mookerjee (B. C. Law vol. I. p. 191) and Dr. Krishnamoorthy (I H. Q. vol. 24, p. 194) try to clinch their arguments by referring to certain passages of the वृत्ति and लोचन on pp. 79, 85, 102, 104 and 105, which corres- pond, it appears, to pp. 96, 103, 124, 127, 128 (of the edition

1. सत्काव्यतत्त्वविषयं स्फुरितप्रसुप्तकल्पं &c. Dr. De (in Journal of Dept. of Letters, vol.IX.p. 41) reads 'सत्काव्यतर्वनयवर्त्म चिरप्रसुप्त०. Dr. M. translates '-o, whose name is widely known, has explicitly brought out for the edification of men of taste the real essence of true poetry which lay dormant for all ages in the minds of even men of mature intellect.' 2. अस्फुटस्फुरितं काव्यतत्वमेतधथोदितम्। अशक्नुवन्ि्ष्याकर्त रीतयः संप्र- वतिताः॥ ध्व. III. 47. व्याकत is explained by the लोचन as प्रति- पादयितुम्·