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(Viveka, P. 66). Hemachandra, who used the K.P. liberally, however, did not forget to present what is worth noting in the writings of other Kashmir writers like Kuntaka, Mahimabhatta, Bhatta Tauta, the illustrious Alamkāra teacher of Abhinava, and Rājanaka Tilaka, who might have been a younger contemporary of Mammața, and the Great Bhoja, also of the eleventh century, of another land and of a different line of thought..... works which ..... have served to heighten the interest which Hemachandra took in them..... One prominent feature of the K.A... (is that) each chapter of the work has as its source one or more writers as authority. The K.A. is thus in a sense like a treatise, where different chapters are written by different authors who are acknowledged masters on the subject."2 84
Hemachandra is held to have derived help from his "uptodate MSS collection" which included Rājānaka Tilak's (i.e. of Rucaka's father and teacher's) work. He is also shown to have drawn upon the Sanketa Commentary of Rucaka on the K.P.285 Prof. S. P. Bhattacharya notes that though the Viveka on the K.A. came by way of supplement, a few additions to the original work in the Vștti portion were made still later on as was the habit of the author in course of revision work (e.g., p. 292, pp. 31-34, pp. 258-263, N.S.E.). "The K.A.'s direct citations, except in the case of the illustrations and their connecting statements in his treatment of the Vrttis (Sense-functions) in Chap. I, of his citations from the Nātyaśāstra. .,.. in Chap. VIII and of three extracts from the Abhinavabhāratı (Vol. 1-2nd Ed. p. 341, pp. 282-83; Vol. VII (C/o Vol. II) pp. 152-53) in his Vịtti, are all found in the Viveka, which professediy is a supplement. 2 86 A Comprehensive Approach
Hemachandra uses prose for his Sūtras or Kärikās like Vāmana and is very terse and businesslike in his Vștti, but elaborate in his citations. His illustrations, in which he tries to be comprehensive, are from Kāvyas. His efforts for being
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