Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c83.3

v2.c83.3

¹ See Vol. I pp. 114-15. Kane (*HAL* pp. lx-lxi) sets forth ably, if not convincingly, Sovani's hypothesis (see Vol. I, p. 111) that the name of the Dhvanikāra was Sahr̥daya. Kane, however, modifies the view by suggesting that "it was due to the profuse use of the word *sahr̥daya* in the *Dhvanyāloka* and to making *sahr̥daya* the final court of appeal in all matters of taste that the founder of the *dhvani*-theory earned the epithet of *sahr̥daya par excellence*" (p. lxiv). Kane also hazards the conjecture that Ānandavardhana was possibly a pupil of the Dhvanikāra, or one closely associated with him; and this will, he thinks, explain the confusion of authorship. I am afraid that the passages that Kane cites in support of these conjectures are hardly decisive, and the question must still be regarded as an open one.