Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c11.6

v1.c11.6

Reading together Vāmana IV.2.20 and 21 (*anupapattir asambhavah* and *na viruddhó'tiśayaḥ*), we find that Vāmana is apparently repeating the same view and in his *vṛtti* on the first *sūtra*, he adds *upamāyān atiśayasyéṣṭatvāt*, making it clear in the next *sūtra* that an effective implication (*atiśaya*), which is contradictory, should be avoided. Vāmana also reproduces anonymously a verse of an unknown poet whose name is given by Bhāmaha (ii 46) with the same verse as Śakhavardhana. Such repetition of views in more or less standardised phraseology in a technical treatise, or the quotation of the same illustrative verse in a similar context need not be taken as conclusive; but Vāmana, in his *vṛtti* on V. 2.38, actually though not accurately quotes, a part of a verse from Bhāmaha ii 27, and comments on the peculiar usage of the word *bhaṅguram* employed therein. ²