Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c11.48

v1.c11.48

¹ Although the name Bhāmaha is not a common one in Sanskrit, it attaches itself (besides two verses in *Subhāṣ.* 1644-1645 that are also found in our text ii 92, iii 21) to a commentator on Vararuci’s *Prākṛta-prakāśa*, who is probably a different author. The *Kāmadhenu* comm. on Vāmana also cites several verses from a treatise apparently on the *kalās* by Bhāmaha (p. 29, ed. Benares); but as our Bhāmaha, as well as his *Bhāmahālaṃkāra* (p. 39), is also cited in several places in the same commentary, it is possible that these verses occurred in some lost chapter of his work where he mentioned the names of the *kalās* (*atra kalānām uddeśaḥ kṛto bhāmahena preceding the verses cited*).