207. DHVANYĀLOKA 205

DHVANYĀLOKA 205

says 'एवं वस्त्वलक्गाररसमेदेन त्रिया ध्वनिरत्र श्रोकेऽस्मद् गुरुमिर्व्याख्यातः'; 'सर्वथाल- कारादिषु व्यक्षयं वाच्ये गुखीभवतीति नः साध्यमित्यत्राशयोत्र अ्रन्थेऽस्मद्गुरुमिर्निरूपितः' (p.44); 'अस्मदगुर व्रस्त्वाङु :- अत्रोच्यते इत्यनेनेदमुच्यते etc.' (p. 227; 'अस्मदु- पाध्यायास्तु हदतमानि पुष्पायि अमुके गृहारा गृहारेत्युच्चैस्तारस्वरेादरातिशयार्थ प्रयच्छता' (p. 267, on the verse 'प्रयच्छतोच्चैः कुसुमानि मानिनी', where the explanation of लोचन is different). These quotations show that his teacher had explained the धवन्यालोक either orally to अभिनवगुप्त or in some commentary. The question arises whether भट्टन्दुराज is identical with प्रतीहारेन्दुराज, commentator of उद्ट. We do not know the parent- age of the latter. But we know this that the latter did not approve of the theory of ध्वनि and included ध्वनिकाव्य under alankāras; while "-Tr seems to have approved of it and ex- plained the ध्वन्यालोक to अभिनवगुप्त. This circumstance by itself is not enough to hold that the two were different. There is nothing to prevent a teacher from expounding the views of a work from which he himself differs. There are other circum- stances such as the non-employment of the title प्रतीहार to उपाध्याय इन्दुराज by अभिनव anywhere, that would have to be care- fully considered in arriving at a decision. प्रतीहारेन्दुराज was a कौक्ण and had come to काश्मीर for study. The word प्रतिहार or प्रतीहार indicates a high office. बृहस्पति quoted by विश्वरूप on या. I. 307 says 'कुलाढ्य उदुक्को मृदुरुदाश्तः समरचित्तः शरोऽनुरक्तोडभेद: पत्तिविशेषज्ञ इद्विता- कारकुशल: प्रतीहार: स्यास्'. शान्तिपर्व 85. 28-29, विष्युधर्मोत्तर II. 24. 12 and शुक्रनीति II. 121-122 also give definitions. In the Valabhi grant of Dhruvasena I. dated in the Valabhi year 206 (525-26 A. D.) the dutaka of the grant is Pratihāra Mammaka (E. I. vol. XI. pp.105-9). For the form प्रतीहार, vide Vasantagadh inscription of Varmalāta (E. I. vol. IX. p. 187-192), the Candravati plate of Candradeva of Kanoj in संवत् 1148 (E. I. IX. at p. 305) and राजत० V. 151. So प्रतीहारेन्दुराज was a high officer in Kashmir and probably prefixed that word to his name to distinguish himself from other Indurājas. Besides, he might possibly have been proud of the distinctions he secured in a country like Kashmir, very distant from Konkana from which he originally came. Though भट्टेन्दुराज and प्रतीहारेन्दुरान were both of them well versed in Alankarasastra and flourished nearly at the same time, they must be regarded as distinct. It is possible that प्रतीहारेन्दुराज flourished a little earlier than इन्दुराज or was at least an elder contemporary of -ST74. We shall see