272. RĀVYAPRAKĀSA 273

RĀVYAPRAKĀSA 273

and says 'कृती राजानकमम्मटालकयोः । ... अयहिल्वपाटके ... शाकम्भरिभूंपाल-श्री- कुमारपालदेव-कल्याणविजय &c.' कुमारपाल ruled from 1142 to 1173 A. D. अलक would be as good a Kashmirian name as मल्लट or भलट. We have such well-known Kashmirian names as कुन्तक, शाङ्कुक, लङ्डक, मङ्गक that end in क, to match with रुद्रट, मम्मट, कल्लट, w8e etc. Vide my note in I. A. for 1911 p. 209 on the subject.1 The सम्प्रदायप्रकाशिनी of विद्याचक्रवर्तिन् (Tri. ed.) says on the last verse इत्येष० 'मन्मथग्रन्थरोषं परिपूरितवतोयमलर्कस्य स्वापेक्षः श्लोक' (part II p. 449). Whether the अलकदत्त ((styled सान्धिविग्रहिक by जोनराज), who imparted instruction in Poetics to कल्याय (probably कल्हय, the author of the राजतर०), as said in the श्रीकएठचरित of मङ्ट (25. 78-80), is identical with this era, it is difficult to say. About the personal history of yrHz we know practically nothing. भीमसेन in his सुधासागर (Ch. S. S.) says that मम्मट was the elder brother of both कैयट (author of महाभाष्यप्रदीप) and उवट (author of भाष्य on ऋकुप्रातिशाख्य), that he was the son of जैयट and, though born in Kashmir, studied at Benares and taught his brothers. But this account furnished by an author who wrote six senturies after #rqz (in 1672-73 A. D.) seems to be more or less fanciful and based probably on the similarity of sounds in the three names. We know from उवट's भाष्य on the भक्प्रातिशासय that he was a son of बञ्रट (and not of जैयट) and a native of आानन्दपुर. उवट wrote his वाजसनेयसंहिताभाष्य while भोज was reigning (भोजे राज्यं प्रशासति). There is therefore nothing improbable in

1. In Z. D. M. G. vol. 66 pp. 477-490 on 'two authors of the Kavyaprakasa' Sukthankar shows that the portion after परिकर in काव्यप्रकाश X follows रुद्रट very closely, while the portion up to परिकर does not and that in the latter part of Ullasa X six examples are cited from the नवसाइसाकचरित while not one is cited from that poem in the first part of arrg. X. One curious coincidence may be noted. In I. A. vol. 58 for 1929 p. 161 there is an inscription of the time of Allata, king of Mewar, dated in samvat 1010 wherein one qaHz is referred to as qaer. Hence it follows that these names were not restri- cted to Kashmir. In the Harsha stone Ins. of चाइमान विग्रहराज (E. I. vol. II. p. 116 at p. 122) about 970A.D. a पाशुपत named भल्ट alias भावरक occurs.