A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.81

v2.c19.s6.t3.81

² H. Lüders, Bruchstücke der Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā des Kumāralāta (Kön. Preuss. Turfan-Expeditionen, Kleinere Sanskrit-Texte II), Leipzig 1926. Both Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā and Kalpanālaṃkṛtikā appear as titles in the colophons. Both adjectives mean the same, and it is probable that Dṛṣṭānta-paṅktiḥ followed after them, so that the meaning of the title is: “A Series of Examples adorned by Poetic Invention.” See *Lüders*, l.c., pp. 19, 26, and S. *Lévi* in JA, t. 201, 1927, p. 95 ff. The Chinese did not understand the somewhat extraordinary title, and (owing to the word alaṃkṛtikā) made a “Sūtrālaṃkāra” out of it. *Lüders* (l.c.) has advanced the hypothesis “that Aśvaghoṣa did actually write a work entitled Sūtrālaṃkāra, which was not translated into Chinese, but soon got lost, and was subsequently confused with the Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā which was known by the similar sounding title Chuang-yen-lun=Alaṃkāraśāstra.” I am not convinced that this is the solution of the riddle. S. *Lévi* (l.c., p. 126 ff.) tries another solution and thinks it still possible that Aśvaghoṣa may be the author of the work.