Dear Members of Indology,

I remember having read an article by Albrecht Wezler in which the author argues cogently that the word kārikā, unlike the word sūtra, was not used in pre-modern times to designate a whole work but only to refer to a single stanzs as a constituent of a work. Accordingly, the title Sāṅkhyakārikā for the seventysomething stanzas composed by Īśvarakṛṣṇa would be a modern invention.

With regard to this, I have two requests: Would somebody please be so kind as to remind me of the bibliographical details of Wezler’s article? Moreover, I would appreciate any information going beyond Wezler’s article on where and by whom the expression "Sāṅkhyakārikā" was used first as the title of Īśvarakṛṣṇa’s work.

With many thanks in advance,

Philipp Maas