Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c28.6

v1.c28.6

¹ Aucit. vic. ad śl. 16 ; Suvṛtta. til ad ii 31. Also Subhāṣ° 2292 and Jalhaṇa 165b. Kṣemendra’s Śyāmala appears to be identical with Śyāmilaka, who wrote the bhāṇa entitled Pāda-tāḍitaka (ed. Rāmakṛṣṇa Kavi and Rāmanātha Śāstri, Madras 1922); for the verses, attributed to Śyāmala in the two works of Kṣemendra noted above, occur as śl. 33 and the 125 respectively in the printed text of the bhāṇa. The colophon describes the author as son of Viśveśvaradatta and an udīcya (northerner), which makes it probable that he is the Kashmiri an Śyāmala, Śyāmalaka or Śyāmilaka, also cited by Abhinavagupta. Both Abhinava and Kuntala quote anonymously verses from this bhāṇa. The verse ascribed to Śyāmalaka in the Subhāṣ° (prāyaścittam mṛgayate yaḥ priyā-pāda-tāḍitam | kṣalanīyam śiras tasya kāntā-gaṇḍūṣa-śidhubhiḥ) refers unmistakably to this bhāṇa, and the second line occurs in a slightly modified form in the bhāṇa itself (ad śl 132). Rājaśekhara cites a Śyāmadeva (pp. 11, 13, 17).