Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c26.3

v1.c26.3

Kṣemendra himself gives us an indication of his date. The concluding verses of his two works, as well as of his *Suvṛtta-tilaka* (ed. Kāvyamālā pt. 2, 1886), state that he wrote in the reign of king Ananta of Kashmir; while the colophon to his *Samayamātṛkā* tells us that it was finished in the reign of the same king in 1050 A.D. His *Daśāvatara-carita*, on the other hand, is dated by himself in 1066 A.D., in the reign of Kalasa, son and successor of Ananta. Bühler² is right, therefore, in fixing the period Kṣemendra's literary activity in the second and third quarters of the 11th century³.