Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c18.1

v1.c18.1

After Vallabhadeva, comes Nami (known as Nami-sādhu or Nami-paṇḍita), who is described as a Śveta-vikṣu, indicating that he was a Jaina belonging to that persuasion. He describes himself as "the bee that sucked honey from the lotus-feet of Śrī-śālibhadra Sūri, the ornament of the gaccha of the city of Thārāpadra". We know that Jinabhadra Sūri, who was a pupil of Śālibhadra, wrote in *saṃvat* 1204 = 1148 A.D.¹ Śālibhadra is also referred to as Śrī-śāli-sūri in another work of Nami's called *Sadāvaśyaka-ṭīkā*, of which the date is given in the work itself as *saṃvat* 1122 = 1066 A.D.² In one of the concluding verses of his commentary on Rudraṭa, Nami states that this commentary was composed in *saṃvat* 1125 = 1069 A.D.³ Among the writers on Poetics cited by Nami on Rudraṭa, we find the names of Bharata (p. 150, 156, 164), Medhāvirudra (pp. 2, 9, 145), Bhāmaha (p. 2, 116), Daṇḍin (pp. 2, 5, 169), Vāmana (pp. 11, 100, 116), Udbhaṭa (pp. 69, 82, 150) and the *Arjuna-carita* by Ānandavardhana. He also cites *Tilaka-mañjarī* (on xvi 3) apparently of Dhana-pāla, and one Jayadeva on prosody (on i 18, 20)¹.