Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c21.24

v1.c21.24

Very little is known of Ānandavardhana’s personal history. The colophon at the end of ch. iii of his work in the India Office MS calls him *noṇopādhyāyātmaja*, while the colophon to ch. iv gives the form *joṇopādhyāya*. Of these two forms of the name of his father, the former seems to be correct, for referring to Ānandavardhana’s *Devī-śataka*, Hemacandra (Comm. p. 225) cites its author as *noṇa-sutaḥ śrīmad-ānandavardhana-nāmā*. Kayyaṭa also, commenting on the last punning verse of the same work, refers to the author as the son of Noṇa, and mentions his two works, the *Viṣamabāṇa-līlā* and *Arjuna-carita*, supposed to have been punningly alluded to in that verse. Both these works are cited in Ānandavardhana’s *Vṛtti*, and the former appears to be a Prakrit poem. Ānandavardhana himself refers to another work of his own at p. 233, on which Abhinava adds the gloss: *granthāntara iti viniścaya-ṭīkāyāṃ dharmottamāyām [dharmottamāyā?] yā vivṛtir, amunā grantha-kṛtā kṛtā*. Abhinava in *Locana* iv (p. 31) refers to another work of Ānandavardhana’s, called *Tattvāloka*, in which the latter is said to have discussed, among other things, the relation between *kāvya-naya* and *śastra-naya*.