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xxxiv hand, there are in the commentary a number of indications of a difference in authorship, and it is difficult to resist the conclusion that Dhanika, its author, was some contemporary of Dhanaṃjaya, very probably his brother, who collaborated in the production of the work.

Of other works by Dhanika only a few fragments have survived to the present day. From seven couplets quoted in his comment on DR. 4. 46 it appears that he composed a treatise on poetics, entitled Kāvyanirṇaya, of which nothing further is known. His Avaloka also reveals him as a writer of poetry, since he cites twenty-four of his own stanzas, twenty in Sanskrit and four in Prākrit, as illustrations of Dhanaṃjaya’s definitions. Two of these stanzas are included, under his name, in the Śārṅgadharapaddhati, and still another is found in that anthology without indication of authorship. Very probably Dhanika was a poet of some repute and belonged to the literary circle at King Muñja’s court, for we find his name mentioned with those of