70. VIȘŅUDHARMOTTARPURĀŅA 67

VIȘŅUDHARMOTTARPURĀŅA 67

Press edition of it (published in sake 1834). A brief account of some part of the 3rd section of the विष्णुधर्मोत्तर may be given here. The first chap. starts with a dialogue between वज्र and मार्कएडेय in which the latter says that divinity dwells in the image of a devata, which is manufactured according to the canons of faaur and which has a pleasing form and that a wise man should worship such an image: चित्रसूत्रविधानेन देवतार्चां विनिर्मिताम्। सुरूपा पूजयेद्विद्वान् तत्र संनिहिता भवेत् ।। v. 7). It is stated in chapter 2 that प्रतिमालक्षण (the art of making images) cannot be under- stood except by one who has studied चित्रसूत्र, which) itself cannot be known without studying नृत्तशास्त्र; नृत्त does not exist without musical instruments and in these latter proficiency is unattainable without the study of singing ( विना तु नृत्तशास्त्रेय चित्रसूत्रं सुदुर्विदम् । ... आतोधेन विना नृतं विधते न कथंचन। न गीतेन विना शक्यं श्ञातुमातोधमप्युत ।।). The सं. र. (I. 24) also says: नृत्यं वाद्यानुगं प्रोक्तं वार्धं गीतानुवृत्ति च. Song is either in संस्कृत or प्राकृत or अपभ्रंश which last is endless, as the provincial dialects are numerous (3s2 तृतीयं च तदनन्तं नराधिप। देशभाषाविशेषेय तस्यान्तो नेह विद्यते॥ भध्याय 2.9-10). 4TE (recitation) is either in prose or in verse. Chap. 3 and 4 deal with metres and vākya-parīksā respectively. Chap. 5 defines u, the five अवयवs of a syllogism, the sixfold व्याख्या of a सूत्र, three प्रमाणS (प्रत्यक्षानुमानाप्तवाक्यानि) and their definitions, with what is authori- tative, with स्मृति, उपमान, अर्थापत्ति. Chap. 6 is on तन्त्रयुक्ति1 (the arrange- ment or plan of a treatise into topics or divisions). Chap. 7 deals with Prakrit (in l1 verses), chap. 8 with देवादिशब्दपर्यायवर्णन, chap. 9 and 10 deal with lexicography; chap. 11, 12, 13 (each in 15 verses) with nouns that are of feminine, masculine or neuter genders. Chap. 14 names and defines figures of speech (which are set out below on p. 71 and are only 17); chap. 15 speaks of kavya, distinguishes it from शास and इतिहास (तदेव काव्यमित्युक्तमुपदे-

1. The 15th अधिकरण of the कौटिलीय is called तन्त्रयुक्ति and it is stated therein that there are 32 युक्तिs in the work such as भविकरण, विधान, योग, पदार्थ, हेत्वथ, &C. Most of these words occur also in chap. 6 of the पुराख. Vide a paper on कौटिलीयततयुक्तय: in J.O. R. Madras, vol. 4 for 1930 pp. 82 ff. The चरकसंहिता (Siddhi- sthāna, chap. 12 verses 40-45) speaks of 36 'tantrasya yuktayah' and Suśruta (Uttara-tantra, chap. 65) names 32 tantrayuktis. The appellations of the yuktis in the two medical works substantially agree with those in Kauțilya.