Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c16.5

v1.c16.5

These considerations make it probable that Vāmana lived between the middle of the 8th and the middle of the 9th century, and justify Bühler's identification, in deference to Kalhaṇa iv 497 and "the tradition of Kāśmīrian Pandits", of our Vāmana with the Vāmana, who was a minister of Jayāpīḍa of Kashmir (779-813 A.D.). This conclusion makes Udbhaṭa and Vāmana contemporaries and rivals; and the way in which Rājaśekhara, Hemacandra and Jayaratha refer to the two rival schools of Vāmanīyas and Audbhaṭas lends colour to such a supposition.