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Vivakṣā in Kāśikāvṛtti: Jayāditya and Vamana
Anna Radicchi
The discussion regarding the authorship of the various parts of the Kaśikāvṛtti by Jayaditya and Vamana respectively has been going on for more than a century.
From the time when the Käsikā began to be published in The Pandit (March 1874, Vol. VIII) by Bālaśāstrī, the task of reliably giving the name of the vṛttikāṛa at the end of each pada had to be faced. However, the manuscript tradition was contradictory. In the Report1 R. G. Bhandarkar concluded that the first five adhyāyas of the Kāśikā should be attributed to Jayaditya and the last three to Vamana. This was contrary to the attribution of the first four adhyāyas to Jayaditya and the last four to Vamana, believed to be valid, based as it was on the evidence of the Kashmirian manuscripts collected by G. Bühler in 1875-762.
Haridīkṣita had stated yet another division in the Sabdaratna to Bhattojīdīkṣita's Prauḍhamanorama under 5. 4. 42: the vṛtti of the I, II, V and VI adhyāyas is by Jayaditya, while the vṛtti of the other adhyayas is by Vamana. Bālaśāstrī also took the latter division into consideration at the end of his edition of the Käsikä3; in this edition he had however practically assigned the first four adhyāyas and the fifth up to the end of the third pada to Jayaditya, the rest to Vamana, occasionally mentioning the name of the vṛttikāra at the end of the pādas. Although the theory presented in their introductions may differ, this division has in fact remained in the three editions most frequently consulted today: Prachya Bharati's 1965-1967 edition, the one from 'Osmania University, and finally the most recent one edited by J. Sh. L. Tripathi and S. Malaviya1.
When S. Ch. Chakravarti published the Bhāṣāvṛtti in 19185, one could
