A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I c5.18

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⁴ Śaṅku is also regarded as a contemporary of Kālidāsa. He cannot be indentical with Śaṅkuka, whom Kalhaṇa mentions as the author of the *Bhuvanābhyudaya*, a poem now lost; for he belongs to the time Ajitāpīḍa of Kashmir (about 813-16 A.D.); *see* S. K. De, *Sanskrit Poetics*, i, p. 38. Śaṅkuka is also cited in the Anthologies, in one of which he is called son of Mayūra; *see* Peterson in *Sbhv*, p. 127 and G· P. Quackenbos, *Poems of Mayūra*, pp. 50-52. Perhaps to this Śaṅkuka, cited as Amātya Śaṅkuka, is also attributed a drama, entitled *Citrotpalālambitaka Prakaraṇa*, from which a passage is quoted in the *Nāṭyadarpaṇa* of Rāmacandra and Guṇacandra (p. 86).