Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c32.7

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so that the sūtra is avowedly referred to as his own by the vṛttikāra.² Some doubt, however, has been thrown on this view by the discovery of a different reading of this line in some of the South Indian MSS, which introduce a grave variant in the phrase nijālaṃkāra-sūtrāṇāṃ by changing it into gurvalaṃkāra-sūtrāṇāṃ. There is also, at the end of the vṛtti in these MSS, an additional verse³, which gives the name of the vṛtti (and not of the text which is called Alaṃkāra-sūtra) as Alaṃkāra-sarvasva, and the name of the author of the vṛtti as Maṅkhuka or Maṅkhaka, who is described as a sāndhi-vigrahika to the king of Kashmir. This forms the reading of the text, (based on three MSS,) which is published in the Trivandrum Series, as well as of MSS noticed by Burnell¹ Winternitz² and in the Madras Catalogue³. This view is supported by Samudrabandha, a South Indian commentator, who flourished in the end of 13th century and whose text is printed in the Trivandrum edition; for the *vṛtti*, the subject of his commentary, is known to him by the name of *Alaṃkāra-sarvasva* and its author as Maṅkhaka, while the original work of Ruyyaka is called *Alaṃkāra-sūtra*.