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Connurtuitoul imageaverters (evrumsNayaltyauraneliunior in the Kavyalakshana grantha of Vakrokijivita. It is there- fore evident from this that the Kavyalakshana-grantha ot Kuntakar referred to by the author of Vyaktiviveka is Identical with the Vakroktijivita-grantha of the commentator of Vya- Khviveka, and it is but natural that a commentary should run into particulars upon any passage referred to in general in the text Although the Anumana theory has been so successfully established after a severe attack on Dhvanikala by a wealth of argumentative reasoning yet on account of the paucity of writers following his lead und the multitude of Writers who hare followed the opposite school, it has not received so liberal a treatment at the hands of successive poets and rheto- Ticians as the other theory (वनि) Thus rhetoricians like the learned Mammatabhatta andl others not only uphold the Dhvani theory with avidity but at the same time treat the Anurmana theory with uniimerited contempt. On the other hand, Ofing to the wealth of comparisons instituted with regard to the demerits and merits of other writers, they closcly follow the path tracell out by the gicat Mahimabhabua. "इत्यादि प्रतिभातत्वमस्माभिरुपपादितम् । शास्त्रे तत्त्वोक्तिकोशाख्य इति नेह प्रपञ्चितम्" ।। (p 108.) It is apparent from this verse of the text that ar certain work called Tabvoktikosas has also been written by Mahima. bhatta If the excellence that one would expect from its name and kinship with Vyaktiviveka should be found in this work, it is a matter for the deepest regret to all lovers of Sanskrit that the book should have been lost. Next we have to determine when Mahimabhatta lived. As we have already sand above that Vyaktiviveka followed close upon the Darpana. in point of composition and as we have already found that Vyaktiviveka was written subsequent to Lochana' which contains a reference to the Darpana it is a master of easy inference that the authors of these three works