Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c30.2

v1.c30.2

¹ Aufrecht (i 432) notes that Mammaṭa's original name was Mahimabhatta on the mistaken authority of Keśava Miśra's erroneous citation (p. 80-81). The passage in which Keśava cites Mahimabhatta clearly refers not to Mammaṭa but to Mahiman, author of the Vyaktiviveka, mentioned in the same context. The verse anaucityādite, however, which is thus quoted and attributed to Mahiman by Keśava, occurs originally in the vṛtti of the Dhvanyāloka (p. 145) from which apparently it is also cited in the Vyakti-viveka (pp. 31, 114) with a sa evāha, along with many other verses similarly quoted from the same text. Keśava might have taken the verse directly from the Vyaktiviveka's citation, without knowing the original source, and wrongly attributed it to Mahiman himself. It does not occur at all in the Kāv. prak. Aufrecht's suggestion, therefore, that Mammaṭa is a corruption of the name Mahimabhatta, like his other supposition that the name Rudrabhatta yields Rudraṭa, is unwarranted. Cf Peterson ii p. 19.