208. 206 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETIĆS

206 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETIĆS

later on that the भभिधावृत्तिमातुका of मुकुल, son of कलट, has to be assigned to the period 900-925 A. D. प्रतीहारेन्दुराज was a pupil of geer and in the verse at the end of his commentary on Udbhata's work bestows the highest praise on a, from the tenor of which it appears very likely that gar was alive when the commentary on उद्द's work was written. So प्रतीहारेन्दुराज's commentary should be assigned to the period 920-950 A. D. We shall see later on thit Abhinavagupta's literary activity lies between 980-1020 A. D. Therefore his guru Induraja would have to be placed somewhere between 960-990 A.D. Abhinava- gupta nowhere speaks of प्रतीहारेन्दुराज nor of मुकुल. If प्रतीहारेन्दु० was identical with TI, we should expect to find some refe- rences to his teacher's teacher मुकुल, as in the case of उत्पलदेव who was Abhinava's teacher's teacher. Besides, we do not find प्रतीहारेन्दुराज quoting any verse of his own in his commentary which is of considerable extent. He seems to have been only a literary critic and not a poet, while Induraja was not only a great literarycritic but is spoken of as a great poet in the same breath with Vālmīki, Vyāsa, and Kālidāsa in the w. Tr. vol. II. p. 293 'न हि सर्वो वाल्मीकिर्ष्यास: कालिदासो भट्टेन्दुराजो वा' and vol. I. p.287 'अनुभावप्राधान्यं यथा-शुद्धसारस्वतप्रवाहपवित्रसकलवाङमयमहावपूर्यभाव- सम्पादनाद्द्विजराजस्येन्दुराजस्य'. Dr. K.C. Pandey in his work on 'Abhinavagupta' (pp. 74 and 142) holds the two to be identi- cal, but that view is based on very slender grounds. No scholar has yet explained why इन्दुराज the teacher of अभिनव in Poetics is nowhere mentioned by him as प्रतीहारेन्दुराज, which is the way in which the commentator of Udbhata refers to himself, nor has anyone adverted to the meaning of qater given by me above. For the present I must say that the evidence for the identity of the two इन्दुराजs is almost nil (except the name itself). इन्दुराज1 the teacher of अभिनव, was the son of श्रीभूतिराज and grandson of सौचुक of the कात्यायनगोत्र, while we know nothing about the ancestors of प्रतीहारेन्दुराज. So Induraja was a teacher of Abhi- navagupta not only in Poetics, but also in the doctrines of the Gita. It is, however, noteworthy that समुद्रबन्ध on the अलक्कार- सर्वस्व (p.130 Trivendrum ed.) seems to identify the two by 1. At the beginning of his commentary on the भगवद्गीता (Nirn.edition with eight com.) भभिनव S3ys: भटेन्दुराजादास्नायं विविच्य च चिर विया। कृतोऽभिनवगप्तेन सोयं गीतार्थसंग्र: ॥ verse 6.