of the work, however, seems to have come down to us in incomplete form, as we have indicated above. Recently Jaya Shankar Tripathi has doubted the genuine- ness of the third chapter of the work. He has pointed out certain points of inconsistency between the 'genuine' and 'spurious' parts of the work with regard to the arrangement of matter and language and style. He makes a particular reference to the depiction of Varäha (Boar incarnation of Visņu) in the third chapter with the Earth placed on Seşa (after she was lifted up by the god in Varäha form from the depths of the ocean).* The depiction, according to him, refers to the Varaha image of the Udayagiri near Vidišă of about 400 A.D., while the scene depicted in the first chapter without the Seşa serpent³ represents in his view an earlier phase in delineation of the event in art and literature. But the evidence is meagre and inconclusive, the difference in the two scenes being at best incidental without any historical bearing. The non-inclusion of Seşa in the scene portrayed in the first chapter is merely casual and, as such, cannot be taken to prove that the 'genuine' Kavyadarśa (the first two chapters) was composed before 400 A.D., the third chapter having been appended to it afterwards, as opined by Tripathi." It may be pointed out that the scene has been depicted at a number of places in other works of Dandin also without a reference to the serpent therein. The other arguments referring to the arrangement of matter and language and style advanced for the spuriousness of the third chapter are still less convincing. profusely by Nrpatunga (815-75 A. D.) in Kavirajamarga; also cp. for refs. to him and to KA as his work, Pratihärenduraja (on Udbhata), Namisādhu (on RKAL I. 2); Abhinavagupta (AB) etc,; cp. below, ch. III also. 1. Cp. DSKI pp. 400-8 । 2. KA III. 25 : उद्धृत्य राजकादुर्वी प्रियतेऽद्य भुजेन ते । वराहेणोद्धृता यासी वराहेरुपरि स्थिता ॥ 3. KAI. 73 : हरिणोद्धृता । भूः खुरक्षुण्णनागासृ ग्लोहितादुदधेः' Seşa is depicted in another scene, in KA II. 188 4. DSKI pp. 400 ff., 429-30 5. Cp. DKC p. 138; ASK pp. 22, 27, 43, 75, 80, 108, 205, 242
