200. 198 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETIOS

198 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETIOS

pursuit of the truth. The second sentence shows a lamentable mentality. Dr. Mokerjee desires to silence all opponents by his ipse dixit and has been so bold as to assume the role of an advocate and also of a judge in his own cause. Whether a question in issue has finally been decided and set at rest is not for Dr. Mookerjee but for independent scholars to decide. Similarly, Dr. Krishnamoorthy shows how far he has balanced judgment in the following remark: 'there is not a single piece of evidence to support firmly the theory of dual authorship (I. H. Q. vol. 24 p. 307). He has proved to his own satisfaction that he is right. I leave him to enjoy that satisfaction. It is for discerning Sanskrit scholars to judge him finally and properly. Additional arguments for asserting that the theory of ध्वनि in poetry had been propounded before भानन्दवर्धन may be set out. आानन्द० quotes (on p. 10) a verse which the लोचन ascribes to मनोरथ, a contemporary of भानन्द०, in which the theory of ध्वनि is ridiculed 'काव्यं तद्ध्वनिना समन्वितमिति प्रीत्या प्रशंस- क्जडो नो विभोभिदधाति कि सुमतिना पृष्टः स्वरूपं ध्वनेः ॥'. Vide राजतर० (IV. 497) for मनोरथ and others and IV. 671 मानी मनोरथो मन्त्री परं परिजहार तम्. This refers to मनोरयs avoiding the voluptury ललितापीड who succeeded king जयापीड. The सुभा० (No. 51, 58, 440) quotes verses of a मनोरथ. If this मनोरथ is identical with the मनोरथ who flourished in the reign of जयापोड and ललितापीड the ध्वनिकारिकाs were composed between 800-825. Parhaps the लोचन is slightly wrong in making आनन्द० a contemporary of मनोरथ. The लोचन while commenting on the words 'परम्परया समान्नातः' in the ध्वन्यालोक says that before the ध्वन्यालोक there ex- isted no work dealing with the theory of ध्वनि 'विनापि विशिष्टपुस्तकेषु विवेचनादित्यभिप्रायः' (p. 4). The ध्वन्यालोक makes it clear that the theory of ध्वनि and its nomenclature were suggested by the स्फोट theory of the grammarians 'प्रथमे हि विद्ांसो वैयाकरणः। व्याकरणमूल- त्वात्सवविद्यानाम्। ते च श्रूयमायेषु वर्शेषु धनिरिति व्यवहरन्ति। तथबान्यस्तन्म- तानुसारिभि: सूरिभि: काव्यतरवार्यवर्शिभिर्वाच्यवाचकसंमिश्रः शब्दात्मा काव्यमिति व्यपवश्यो व्यञ्जकत्वसाम्याद् ध्बनिरित्युक:।' (घ्व० pp. 55-56) and again on p. 249 'परिनिश्चितनिरपभ्रंशशम्दमक्षयां विपश्चिता मतमाश्रित्येव प्रवृत्तोयं ध्वनिव्यवहार इति तैः सह कि विरोधाविरोधौ चिन्त्येते।'. The स्फोट theory is probably older than पाणिनि who mentions a predecessor स्फोटायन in 'अवळ स्फोटायनस्य' पा. VI. 1.123. The वाक्यपदीय at great length