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is full of quotations. Over 330 verses are quoted, including about twenty verses of wfars himself, some of which are in Prakrit (two on II. 34 and one on II. 37). We learn from vfrn's comment (on IV. 37) that he wrote a work called काव्यनिर्यय from which he quotes seven verses. He seems to have held views somewhat similar to those of भट्टनायक, when he says (on IV. 37) 'न रसादीनां काव्येन सह व्यकय्य्जकभावः रकि तर्हि भाग्यभावकसम्बन्धः । काव्यं हि भावकम्। भाव्या रसादय:' ।. The दरारूप says that for the plot the poet should turn to the रामायण and the tEFaT (I. 68). For want of space all the works quoted by धनिक are not set out here. Of special interest are his quotations from वाक्पतिराजदेव alias मुज (the verse प्रणयकुपितां being attributed once to वाक्पति and again to मुब्ज on IV. 58 and 60), पद्मगुप्त (under II. 40 'चित्रव्तिन्यपि नृपे' नवसाइसाक०, VI. 42), the विदशालभब्जिका I. 31 (सुधाबद्धग्रासरुपवन० on IV. 53), कपूर- मन्जरी (रबडा चएडा I. 22. under दशरूप III. 15). धनब्जय, the author of कारिकाs, wasson of विष्ु and a member of the sabhd of king Munlja; while धनिक also was the son of fou and therefore seems to have been the brother of पनम्जय. The कारिकाs were composed in the time of Munja. In order to fix the date of the 5y we have to see when Munja alias Vakpatiraja flourished. In the paper of Buhler and Zachariae on the नवसाइसाकचरित (translated in I. A. vol. XXXVI pp. 149-172) there is an account of Vākpatirāja alias Muñja (pp. 168-170). In I. A. vol. VI pp. 51-52 there is an inscription of वाक्पतिराज dated संवद् 1031 (974 A. D.) which records a grant of lands to Vasantācārya, son of पनिकपरिक्त who hailed from भहिच्छन. In I. A. vol. XIV pp. 159-161 there is a copperplate grant of वाक्पतिराज in संवत् 1036 (979 A. D.) which records the gift of a village to the goddess Bhatteśvarī at Ujjayinī. It is stated that Muñja was defeated, captured and beheaded by Tailapa II (I. A. 36 at p. 170). भमितगति author of सुभाषितरतनसन्दोह composed it in संवत् 1050 (993-94 A. D.) during the reign of king Muñja and as Tailapa II. died before or in sake 919 (997-98 A. D.), it follows that वावपतिराज alias मुब्ज was killed between 993-4 to 997 (ibid.). Thus Munja was on the throne of Malva from at least 974 A. D. Therefore, the FRsy must have been composed between 974 to 996 A.D. Whether the धनिकपरिबत whose son वसन्ताचार्य was the donce in I. A. vol, VI. pp. 51-52 in 974 A. D. is to be