History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c19.1

c19.1

This work traces the descent of Daṇḍin in its introductory chapter. In doing so it brings his great grandfather Gopala as a fellow-pupil of Bhāravi whom it brings into contact with three kings of South India, namely, Viṣṇuvardhana, the father of Jayasiṃha I of the Cālukyas of Bādāmi; of Durvinīta, among the Gangas who was his own pupil and commented up on the 15th Sarga of the Kirātārjunīya and wrote a Sanskrit version of the Bṛhatkathā and Siṃhaviṣṇu of Kanchi. These details come out clearly from the MS. copy of the prose work *Avantisundarikathā*, not the versified *sāra* or abridgement, as shown by Pandit Harihara Sastri, Curator of Sanskrit MSS., Trivandram, in a paper presented to the fourth Oriental Conference in Allahabad.