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300-311, at p. 305 tries to meet Mr. Verma's arguments. I do not think that it is necessary for me to go into these matters at length. Though I do not agree with everything that Mr. Verma says, some of the points that he has made are arresting and worthy of consideration. For example, (a) on the कारिका I. 4 (प्रतीयमानं पुनरन्यदेव वस्त्वस्ति वाणीषु महाकवीनाम्। यत्तत्प्रसिद्धावयवाति- रिक्तं विभाति लावएयमिवाअनासु II) the वृत्ति gives two explanations of प्रसिद्ध 'यशत्सहृदयहृदयसुप्रसिद्धं प्रसिद्धेभ्योऽलङकृतेभ्यः प्रतीतेभ्यो वावयवेभ्यो व्यतिरि- क्तत्वेन प्रकाशते &.(the लोचन says प्रसिद्धशब्दस्य सर्वंप्रतीतत्वमलङकृतत्वं चार्थः). In the very preceding karika I. 3 (तन्र वाच्यः प्रसिद्धो य: &c.) the word प्रसिद्ध is employed in the sense of 'well-known to all people'. If the author of कारिका and वृत्ति were the s:me he should have in the qfa stuck to one meaning in succeeding verses; (b) कारिका II. 11 is 'समर्पकत्वं काव्यस्य यत्तु सर्वरसान्प्रति। स प्रसादो गुणो श्ञेयः सर्वसाधारणक्रिय: ॥'. The preceding karikas (II. 9-10) state that the guna madhurya is specially suited to विप्रलम्भशक्गार and करुण and the guna ojas sets off Raudra, Vira and Adbhuta. Kārikā II. 11 states that prasāda is a guņa common to all rasas. The word सर्वसाधारयक्रिय: is explained in the वृत्ति as 'सर्वरससाधारणो गुखः सर्वरचनासाधारणश्र'. The context and the expression सवरसान् प्रति in the karika itself clearly convey that सर्व in सर्वसाधारयक्रिय: must refer only to सवरस. Hence the second explanation (सर्वरचना- साधारख) is out of place and (to use the language of which Doctor Mookerjee has made a fetish) is उत्सूत्रव्याख्यान; (c) कारिका III. 19 (last half) is 'रसस्य स्याद्विरोधाय वृत्त्यनौचित्यमेव च ॥I.' The vrtti gives three meanings to the word वृत्ति viz. व्यवहार (तथा वृत्तेव्यवहारस्य यदनौचित्यं तदपि रसभङ्गहेतुरेव। यथा नायकं प्रति नायिकाया: कस्या- श्विदुचिताअभभ्भिमन्तरेण स्वयं सम्भोगाभिलाषकथने), कैशिक्यादिवृत्तिs (known from भरत) or उपनागरिकादिवृत्ि. Out of these at the most the last two may be accepted as meant in the कारिका, looking to कारिकाS III. 33 and 48. These are matters worthy of consideration. I pass over the other points of Mr. Verma. Before proceeding further a few remarks have to be made about the name of the work. In the colophons of the work, it is often called सहृदयालोक 1 or सहदयहृदयालोक or काव्यालोक or काष्या- 1. Vide Des. cat of Govt. mss library at BORI, Poona, vol. XII pp. 209, 214, 215 mss. No. 254 & 256 & 255 of 1875- 76 pp. 209-215) where the colophons are : इत्यानन्दवर्धनाचार्यविरचिते सहदयहृदयालोके. .. उद्योत :. राघवभट्ट in his com. on शाकुन्तल says 'यदुक्तं राजानकानन्दवर्धनैः सहृदयहृदयालोके ... निबन्धनम्।" pp. 133-134.