Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c32.26

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(4) *Alaṃkārānusāriṇī*, cited by Jayaratha as Ruyyaka's (p.p. 36, 57, 58 and 60). This work is supposed by Peterson¹, and following him by Aufrecht² and Jacobi³, to be a commentary on Jalhaṇa's *Somapāla-vilāsa*. As Jayaratha's citations indicate, it discussed incidentally some of the poetic figures, but there is nothing in these citations to show that it was in fact a commentary on Jalhaṇa's *Somapāla-vilāsa*. The poet Jalhaṇa is described in Maṅkhaka's *Śrīkaṇṭha-carita* (xxv 75); and Somapāla, king of Rājapurī (near Kashmir), whose life Jalhaṇa appears to have recorded, is known