Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c5.53

v1.c5.53

³ *satkavi-kāvya-racanām ivālaṃkāra-prasādhitām*, p. 303; *dīrghocchvāsa-racanānukulam su-śleṣa-vaktra-ghaṭanā-paṭu satkāvya-viracanam iva*, pp. 238-39; *utprekṣākṣepau kāvyālaṃkāreṣu* p. 146. The reading of the first of these passages in the Calcutta edition is *bauddhasaṃgatim ivālaṃkāra-bhūṣitām*, and the commentary of Śivarāma explains it as *alaṃkāro nāma dharmakīrti-kṛto grantha-viśeṣaḥ*, implying that Subandhu here refers to a work on Alaṃkāra, so designated, by the Buddhist Dharmakīrti. If this were so, and if this Dharmakīrti can be identified with the Buddhist logician, who appears also to be quoted in the *Dhv.* pp. 217, then he is apparently one of the earliest writers on Alaṃkāra whose work is now lost; for he is generally placed in the first half of the 7th century. This conflicts with the accepted date of Subandhu, and undue reliance need not be placed on an unauthenticated statement of a very late commentator. Levi is probably correct in denying that Subandhu