Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c51.17

v1.c51.17

which, if authentic, implies that the work was designedly left incomplete. But in some MSS there is an additional verse, which gives a list of the figures to be dealt with (*pratipādyālaṃkāra-sūci*)³, which ends with the mention of *utprekṣā*, and omits *atiśayôkti* which ought to come after it. The *Candrikā* commentary supports this tradition with the remark *utprekṣā-granthānantaraṃ citramīmāṃsā na kvāpi dṛśyate*; but the commentary of Dharānanda, son of Rānabala, includes and comments on the section on *atiśayôkti* coming thereafter. Appayya's own references to the *Citra mīmāṃsā* in *Kuvalayānanda* (pp. 78, 86, 133) relate to the treatment of the figures of *śleṣa*, *prastutāṅkura* and *arthāntara-nyāsa*, which are wanting in the present-day text. Appayya's third work, the *Vṛtti-vārttika*, which is a short dissertation, after a work called *Kāvya-saraṇi*, on the three functions of word and its sense, is also incomplete as it stands; for it consists only of two chapters on the two functions *abhidhā* and *lakṣaṇā*, and the third chapter which should deal with the third function *vyañjanā* is wanting¹.