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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c13: The Commentators On Dandin

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c13

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The Commentators On Dandin

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The commentaries on Daṇḍin, as the following Bibliography will show, are numerous. Most of these are comparatively modern, excepting perhaps that of Taruṇavācaspati as well as the anonymous commentary called *Hṛdayaṅgama*, both printed in the Madras edition. With this exception, they are hardly useful for a historical or critical study of Daṇḍin.

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Editions. (1) Bibl. Ind. 1863, by Premacandra Tarkavāgīśa, reprinted by Bhavadeva Caṭṭopādhyāya, Calcutta 1881 (2) by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara 1882 etc (3) edited and translated by Böhtlingk, Leipzig 1890 (4) with two comms. (one of Taruṇavācaspati and the other entitled Hṛdayaṅgama) by Raṅgācārya, Madras 1910 (5) by S.K. Belvalkar and Raṅgācārya B. Raddi with Sansk. comm. and English notes in B.S.S. (in course of publication : pt. i (1919) and pt. ii first half (1920), already published). Our references are to the Madras edition unless otherwise indicated : this edition divides the work into four chapters instead of three.

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MSS. Aufrecht i 102b, 779a, ii 20a, 193b, iii 22b; *SCC* vii 20, 22, 33; *KBod* 485, 486; *Madras Cat.* 12830-33.

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Commentaries. (1) by Taruṇavācaspati, *Madras Cat.* 12834 (printed in Madras ed). It appears to be an old comm. It does not refer, as other comms. mostly written in comparatively recent times do, to very late authors. But as it cites (on i 40) Bhoja ii 28, as well *Daśarūpaka* i 8 (in comm. on i 31), it cannot be placed very early. This commentary (on i 30) also refers to a poet Hastimall who may be the Jaina poet Hastimallasena whose dramas and poems are mentioned in Oppert.

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(2) *Hr̥dayaṅgama* by an anonymous author. *Madras Cat.* 12833 (printed in the same).

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(3) *Mārjanā* by Harinātha, son of Viśvadhara. *ABod* 206b; Peterson vi p. 30 (extract). Hārinātha also wrote a comm. on Bhoja's *Sarasvatī-k°*. He must be later than Keśava Miśra whose work on *Alaṃkāra* he cites.

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(4) *Mukṭāvalī* by Narasiṃha-sūri, son of Gadādhara and grandson of Kr̥ṣṇa-śarman. Mitra 2394 (Aufrecht i 102b).

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(5) *Candrikā* by Triśaraṇataṭabhīma. Mentioned in Hall's *Index* p. 63.

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(6) *Rasika-rañjanī* by Viśvanātha. Oppert 4112 (Aufrecht i 103a).

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(7) *Vivṛti* or *Kāvya-tattva-viveka-kaumudī* by Kr̥ṣṇakiṅkara Tarkavāgīśa Bhaṭṭācārya of Gopālapura in Bengal. *IOC* 1497.

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(8) Comm. by Vādijaṅghāla (or °ghaṅghāla). Stein pp. 61, xxviii, extract no 1179). The *Report of Peripatetic Party of Madras MSS Lib. 1917-19* mentions a recent acquisition of this comm. for the Library.

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(9) Comm. by Bhāgīratha. Aufrect i 102b.

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(10) Comm. by Vijayānanda. Aufrecht i 102b.

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(11) *Vaimalya-vidhāyinī* by Mallinātha, son of Jāgannātha. Aufrecht ii 20a. This is perhaps the same Mallinātha as is referred to by Viśveśvara in *Alaṃkaus°*, p. 69 as a commentator on *Kāvyādarśa*; and he should be distinguished from the better known Kolācala Mallinātha.

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(12) Comm. (incomplete) by Tribhuvancandra, otherwise called Vādisiṃha, a Jaina. *HPS* iii, no. 57.

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(13) anonymous comms. in Mitra 297, Oppert 7903; SCC vii 21. A comm by Dharmavācaspati in Oppert 2581 is probably a mistake for Taruṇavācaspati. Regnaud (*Rhétorique*, p. 367 fn) also mentions a commentary by Vācaspati and refers to Taylor ii 501: which probably refers also to this commentary.

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