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to भानुवस, which is an imitation of the गीतगोविन्द. It describes the affection of Gauri for Siva in ten cantos. It specifies how the verses (in groups of eight) are to be sung to certain melodies (such as Āsāvarī, Karņāțaka, Kedāra, Bhūpāla, Bhairavī, Malava). Vide Eggeling's Cat. of India Office mss. vol. VII. pp. 1443-45 No. 3847. This work was published in the nry- रस्नमाला in Bombay in 1887 but I could not get a copy of it. The गीतगौरीश appears to be the work of the author of the रसमम्जरी and रसतरदिणी. Another work named कुमारभागवीय described in Eggeling's Cat. vol. VII pp. 1540-41 speaks of Kartikeya. It is in twelve asares in mixed prose and verse. There the author's pedigree is given as follows : रत्नेश्वर-सुरेश्वर- विश्वनाथ-रविनाथ-भवनाथ-महादेव-गणपति-भानुदस्त. Introductury verse 18 ascribes the वार्तिक on Vedanta to सुरेश्वर, the ancestor of भानुदर्त. But this is certainly wrong; सुरेश्वर wrote his वार्तिक in the 9th century and it is not possible to hold that ut who was only 7th in ascent from भानुदस्त (including the latter) could have flourished in the 9th century. Dr. Har Dutta Śarma (in Annals of B. O. R. I. vol. 17 pp. 243-258) shows that in some of the later anthologies such as the पधरचना, सुभाषितहारावलि and रसिकजीवन verses from रसमब्जरी and रसत० are ascribed to भानुकर, that भानुकर and भानुदस are the same, that as भानुदत्त says in his रसत० V. p. 73 (कषोणीपर्यटनं श्रमाय विहितं ... कुज्ञानेन मया प्रयागनगरे नाराधि नाराय: ॥), he wandered over several parts of India and that भानुकर being patronized by वीर- g, he should be placed at the beginning of the 16th century. Dr. De in the same vol. (pp. 297-98) does not accept the identity of भानुकर and भानुदस and I also hold that the evidence for identifying the two is not satisfactory and is meagre. Dr. Raghavan (in Annals of B. O. R. I. vol. XVIII. pp. 85-86) states that the ascriptions of authorship in onthologies should not be much relied on and that a verse quoted in रसिकजीवन and relied upon by Dr. Har Dutta Sarma (on p. 257 of vol. 17 of Annals B. O. R. I.) is really a verse in the बालभारत (I. 28) of राजशेखर. We have seen (pp. 148-150) what a mess the anthologies make about रुद्रट and रुद्रभट्ट. Prof. Devasthali in New I. A. vol. VII. pp. 111-117 examines several questions connected with भानुदस and heconcludes that भानुदस is certainly the author of six works, viz. रसत०, रसम०, अलक्कारतिलक, गीतगौरीश, कमारभार्गवीय and चित्र चन्द्रिका (mentioned in अलक्वारतिलक as his work