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that several writers on poetics from the latter half of the eighth century downwards have drawn on the Venisamhara along with other plays for illustrations. The oldest among these writers are Vamana and Anandavardhana. Both these have quotations from the Venisamhra the former in his Kavyalankarasutravritti [१] and the latter in his Dhvanyaloka.[२]

 A'nandavardhana, the author of Dhvanyāloka, is known from the Rājatarangiṇi, to have lived under the Kāshmirian king Avantivarman, in the latter half of the ninth century, (355-883 A. D.)[३]. Vamana the author of the Kavyalankarasutravritti is believed to be anterior to A'nandavardhana on the ground that Abhinavagupta (who wrote in the last quarter of the tenth and in the first half of the eleventh century [४] his Lochana, a commentary on the Dhvanynloka) remarks in the course of his exposition on a certain verse, 'अनुरागवती संध्या' etc. that the verse is cited by the author as an instance of आक्षेप according to Vamana's view, and of समासोक्ति according to Bhamaha's view. [५] Thus according to Abhinavagupta who is only a century or so removed from A'nandavardhana, Vamana wrote before A'nandavardhana, that is, before the latter half of the ninth century. And if the tradition of the Kāshmirian Pandits be believed, as Dr. Buhler [६] and Dr. Bhandarkar [७]



  1. 'अस्तं भास्वान् प्रयातः सह रिपुभिरयं संह्रियन्तां बलानि.', quoted as illustration for the figure of speech सहोक्ति, page 58 काव्यमाला १५; and 'पतितं वेत्स्यसि क्षितौ' under the Sutra वेत्स्यसीति पदभङ्गात्' । 5, 2, 8I.
  2. 'कर्ता द्यूतच्छलानां etc.' as an instance of गुणीभूतव्यङ्ग्यसंकीर्णत्व, page 225 काव्यमाला २५; चञ्चद्भुजभ्रमितचण्डगदाभिघात etc.' as an instance of दीप्तिप्रकाशनपरशब्द, which consists in दीर्घसमासरचनालंकृतवाक्य, page 80 ibid; 'यो यः शस्त्रं बिभर्ति etc.' as an instance of दीप्तिप्रकाशनपरः अर्थः' which does not require long compounds page 8I ibid.
  3. V. A. Smith, Early History of India, Page 344 and Rājatarangini vi. 34.
  4. Buhler's Kashmir Report P.66.
  5. काव्यमाला २५, page 37;
  6. Kashmir Report Page 65.
  7. P. xviii of Preface to Malatimadhava 2nd ed.