Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c31.59

v1.c31.59

18. KAMALĀKARA BHAṬṬA. He is better known as a legist, and wrote a large number of works on Smṛti and Mīmāṃsā. He was a Mahratta Brahmin of Benares, son of Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa and Umā, younger brother of Dinakara Bhaṭṭa, and grandson of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa and great-grandson of Rāmeśvara Bhaṭṭa¹. Ananta Bhaṭṭa, who wrote the *Rāma-kalpadruma* at the request of Garibadāsa, minister of Rājā Rājasimha, was his son. Kamalākara’s date is known from the fact that he dates his *Nirṇaya-sindhu* in 1612 A.D. He also wrote a poem called *Rāma-kautuka* in 4 cantos.