271. 272 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

272 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

No. 23). The colophons at the end of the first and 10th chap. of the काव्यप्रकाशसक्केत are 'इति श्रीमद्राजानकामल्लमम्मटरचक विरचिते निजग्रन्थ- काव्यप्रकाशसक्टेते प्रथम उल्लासः' and 'कृती राजानक मम्मटालकरुचकानाम्' (vide Peterson's 2nd Report p. 14). A ms. of the काव्यप्रकाश dated daa 1215 (i. e. 1158 A. D.) described by prof. S. R. Bhandar- kar (Report on tour for 1905-6 p. 79) has the colophon 'ct राजानकमम्मटालकयोः'. This joint authorship of the काव्यप्रकाश is referred to by अर्जुनवमदेव in his commentary on the भमरुशतक. He says (on verse 30 of K.M. ed. भवतु विदितं p. 29) 'यथोदाहतं दोष- नियये मम्मटालकाभ्यां प्रसादे वर्तस्व etc. (vide काव्यप्र. p.438). In another place (on verse 72 of अमर 'लीलातामर साहतो०' p. 55) he remarks 'अत्र केचिद्ायुपदेन जुगुप्साश्ठीलमिति दोषमाचचते ... तदा वाग्देवतादेश इति व्यवसितग्य पवासौ। किं तु ल्ावंकमयीवरलब्धप्रसादी काव्यप्रकाशकारी प्रायेण दोषटृष्टी etc.' For the verse लीलाताम, vide काव्यप्रकाश (p. 278). भर्जुनवमदेव was 13th in succession from भोज of धारा and his inscriptions range from 1211 to 1216 A. D. Therefore, in about a hundrad and fifty years मम्मट came to be regarded as an avatara of सरस्वती. It further follows from the words of भजुन० that भलक had a hand not only in the 10th but also in the 7th agra. It is pro- bable that having known by tradition that wa was associat- ed with the composition of the काव्यप्रकाश, भजुन० ascribes to him the authorship of the whole work. Dr. H. R. Divekar (in JRAS 1927 pp. 505-520) puts forward certain grounds and holds that #az composed only the karikas up to the figure called Parikara and the remaining kārikas and the whole of the vrtti were composed by Alaka. His reasons are in some cases subjective and all af them are unconvincing. Most mss. read the name as wors, but Dr. Stein remarks 'In order to co- mplete the case. for sige as the name of the continuator of the Kāvyaprakāsa, it suffices for me to point out that this form of the name is the only one known to the tradition of the Kashmirian pandits, to whom the double authorship of the Kāvyaprakāśa is otherwise perfectly familiar' (vide Cat. of Jammu mss. p. XXIII-XXVI). Col. Jacob, therefore, thinks that waz is the correct form and not we (JRAS for 1897 p. 282). I would attach more importance to ancient mss. than to the traditions of modern pandits (one of the mss. which gives the name as sicra is so old as 1158 A.D.). Vide Gode, vol. I. pp. 234-238 where the colophon of the mss. is dated संबत् 1215 आश्िन सुदि १४ इुष (i. e. Wednesday 8th October 1158)