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OF CULTURE krti mamtralaya GOVERNMENT OF B 146 SL Turning now to the writers of this century, I find the opinion to be equally divided. Colebrooke, in his essay on Sanskrit and Prakrit Poetry,' follows the later commentators, and says, "The author was Bhartrihari, not, as might be supposed from the name, the celebrated brother of Vikramaditya, but a grammarian and poet who was son of Sridhara Svami, as we are informed by one of his scholiasts, Vidyavinoda. (Essays, vol. II, p. 116.) Professor Aufrecht, in his Bodleian Catalogue, speaks of Bhartrihari, "cujus liber grammaticus, minime vero Bhattiikavyam memoratur" (p. 175 6); but in his notices of the Praudha-manorama, (p. 132 6), of the Subodha, (p. 175 a), of the Amara-kosha, (p. 132 6), and of the Sarasvati-kanthabharana, he cites Bhatti. In the last named work both Bhatti and Bhartrihari have been separately cited. Dr. Bhau Daji observes that Bhatti "is popularly believed to have been a son of Bhartrihari," (Journal, Bombay Branch R. A. S., 1862, p. 219.) Bohlen, reciting a tradition which says "Vikrama in fact got possession of the kingdom and took to himself Bhatti as prime minister," remarks, "in this again they seem to have gone wrong, confounding both persons and times. For there exists a grammatical poem called Bhatti Kavya, describing at the same time the exploits of Rama, which has been attributed to a certain grammarian belonging to a later age called Bhartrihari, and from the name of this poem, I think, Bhatti seems to have been considered as the brother of this our Bhartrihari." (Preface to his edition of the Satakas of Bhartrihari, p. 6.) In a note in the Indian Antiquary (I, p. 319) Pandit Seshagiri Sastri gives a story (noticed) also by Bohlen) which says that "a Brahman, named Chandragupta, had four wives, one of the Brahman caste, another of the Kshatriya, the third of the Vaisya, the fourth of the Sudra caste. They were called Brahmani, Bhanumati, Bhagyavati and Sindhumati. Each of the four bore him a son. Vararuchi was born of the first wife, Vikramarka of the second, Bhatti of the third, and Bhartrihari of the fourth. Vikramarka became king, while Bhatti served him in the capacity of prime-minister." A critical survey of these several diverse opinions shows that the balance of evidence rests with those who take Bhatti to be distinct from Bhartrihari. The three oldest scholiasts take Bhatti to be the name of the author of the Bhatti-kavya, so does the MS. under notice,