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the inference very probable. Nor is Dr. Mookerjee correct in what he says about Jayantabhatta (ibid. p. 192). The words of the न्यायमअरी are: 'यमन्यः पण्डितंमन्यः प्रपेदे कंचन ध्वनिम्। विधेनिषेधाव- गतिर्विधिबुद्धिर्निषेधतः॥ यथा-मम धम्मिशर वीसत्थो मा स्म पान्थ गृहं विश। मानान्तर- परिच्छेद्यवस्तुरूपोपदेशिनाम्। शब्दानामेव सामथ्यं तत्र तत्र तथा तथा। अथवा नेदृशी चर्चा कविभि: सह शोभते ॥' (Vizianagaram ed. p. 48). Thewords of Dr. Mookerjee 'the doctrine of Dhvani is refuted which has been propounded by a fellow who considered himself a real scholar' do not accurately render the first half. The half line and the following lines really mean "a wise-acre resorted to or adopted a certain (doctrine called) dhvani, (according to which) there may be a suggestion of prohibition from words that (apparently) allow a certain act to be done or there is the suggestion of some act being allowed to be done (from words) that express a prohibition, as in 'bhama dhammia' &c." This is a pointed reference to the words of the वृति (in ध्व०) 'स हि कदाचिद्वाच्ये विधिरूपे प्रतिषेधरूपः । यथा मम धम्मिअ0, क्वचिद्वाच्ये प्रतिषेधरूपे विधिरूपो यथा । अत्ता एत्थ0, (pp 19, 24). The word 'prapede' cannot mean 'propounded'. It can only mean 'resorted to, took refuge, or adopted.'1 This quotation would recoil on Dr. Mookerjee. The words of Jayanta would mean 'there was already a doctrine of safa, which was adopted by a man who posed as a scholar &c.' That would lead to this that tafa already existed (in a work or in kārikās) and the vrttikāra only adopted it. There is a further hit in Jayanta's words vix. 'what is the use of arguing with poets' ? The plural is satirical. The vrttikāra (of ध्वन्यालोक) was a poet and is spoken of as कविरानन्दवर्धन: in the राजत० (quoted below). Jayanta says 'the writer (ofafa) is a mere poet and not an acute logician or philosopher; there is no use in arguing with such a man'. जयन्तवत्तिकार was almost a contempo- rary of आनन्दवर्धन, since his son अभिनन्द in his कादम्बरीकथासार states that जयन्त was the great-grandson of शक्तिस्व्ामिन्, minister of king मुक्तापीड of कर्कोटवंश. Mr. Goda Verma in New I. A. vol. V. pp. 265-272 has brought forward certain matters of contradiction between the kārikas and the vrtti and Dr. Krishnamoorthy (I. H. Q. vol. 24,

1. Compare रघुवंश VI. 17 'नरेन्द्रमार्गाट् इव प्रपेदे विवर्णभावं स स भूमिपालः' or राजशेखर 'ततः प्रपेदे भुवि भर्तमेएठताम्' or श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद् VI. 18 'मुमुत्तुवे शरखमहं प्रपधे'.