Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c11.9

v1.c11.9

With regard to the other terminus, controversy has been keen and busy. Pāṭhak finds in the mention of a *nyāsakāra* in Bhāmaha vi 36 a clear reference to the Buddhist Jinendrabuddhi, author of a commentary (ed. Varendra Research Society) on the *Kāśikā*, and comes to the conclusion that "as the *nyāsakāra* (meaning Jinendra) lived about 700 A.D., Bhāmaha must be assigned to the 8th century".¹ Against this K. P. Trivedi has demonstrated² that the allusion to the opinions of the *nyāsakāra* cannot be taken as an unmistakable reference to Jinendrabuddhi's views, and that the existence of some other *nyāsakāras* are also made probable by the citations of Mādhava, as well as by a punning passage in Bāṇa's *Harṣa-carita*.³ Jacobi⁴ has joined issue by adding a doubt on the correctness of the date assigned by Pāṭhak to Jinendrabuddhi who, on the authority of Kielhorn, was probably later than Haradatta (d. 878 A.D.).