[ - § 75 Traditional Founder of Sarasvata 75. Traditional founder of the Sarasvata school. The person who is credited with the authorship of these värtikas to the Särastata is an ascetic called Anubhätisvarapacharya. Tradition goes further and makes him the direct recipient of the revelation of the sütras from the Goddess Saras- vati, after whom the school gets its name. This does not seem to be, however, the right view. We know that Anubhūtisvarūpācharya gives in his Sarasvata-prakriyā some vārtikas, aud this is incompatible with his being the Sūtrakāra, as there was nothing to prevent him from turn- ing his värtikas into so many sutras. Secondly, some of the rules which Anubhūtisvarūpācharya gives in his commen- tary are absent in other commentaries. Lastly, though this has hardly much bearing on the question before us, Anubūtisvarūpācharya is the spiritual name of a man about whom we know nothing. On the contrary Kshemendra at the end of his commentary on the Särasvata-prakriya has the colophon-reftatararienceà gized for thereby making Narendra the author of the Sarasvata. Again, Amritabhārati another commentator has the fol- lowing: trun v û 95 surmania ! síð var fær l A grammarian Narendracharya is also quoted by Vittha- lacharya in his Prakriyakaumudiprasada. Although as a result of these conflicting facts we are not justified in throwing any doubt upon the historical existence of Anubhūtisvarūpācharya, still we must admit that he is no more than a name for us, and to set against him we have another-Narendra or Narendracharya-who must have written some original work on the Sarasvata, no trace of which has, however, been hitherto discovered. We may observe in passing that such a confusion of names is more likely to occur in the case of modern writers, especially obscure writers; and such we might
