Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c12.39

v1.c12.39

Pischel¹ has already negatived the suggestions of Premacandra Tarkavāgīśa², Peterson³ and Jacobi⁴ that Daṇḍin in i 12 refers by the word *chando-viciti* to a treatise of his own, so named, on the subject of prosody. The word, however as indicated by Daṇḍin himself in the same verse, by his reference to it as *sā vidyā*, does not necessarily mean any particular treatise but the science of prosody in general; for which, in addition to the references given by Pischel, one need only cite Rājaśekhara p. 6 and Hemacandra, Comm. p. 5. In iv 49, again, Daṇḍin refers to a *kalā-pariccheda*, which Peterson takes to be a clear reference to another work of Daṇḍin's; but it is more likely that this was an additional or supplementary chapter to his *Kāvyādarśa*, as Taruṇavācaspati suggests (p. 282). It is noteworthy that the *Kāmadhenu* commentary on Vāmana similarly quotes from a lost work or chapter of Bhāmaha's on the *kalās*⁵