Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c31.70

v1.c31.70

title indicates and the author confesses, was composed by a compilation from “the principal commentaries of Jayanta and others.” He cites, therefore, some of the well-known commentaries¹ before his time, among which we find the *Sāhitya-dīpikā* (of Bhāskara), *Sārabodhinī* (of Śrīvatsa), the commentaries of Subuddhi Miśra and Paṇḍitarāja, the *Vistārikā* (of Paramānanda), the *Pradīpa* (of Govinda?), and two other works *Tattra-parīkṣā* and *Rasa-ratna-dīpikā*. This is the same Ratnakaṇṭha who copied the *codex archetypus* of the *Rājatarangiṇī*, mentioned by Stein (introd. p. viif) and also transcribed MSS of the *Saṃketa* of Ruyyaka in 1648, of Rāyamukuṭa’s commentary on Amara in 1655, and of Trilocanadāsa’s *Kātantra-pañcāsikā* in 1673 A.D. He is identical with Ratnakaṇṭha, who was the son of Śaṅkarakaṇṭha and grandson of Ananta-kavi of the Dhaumyāyana race and who wrote a *Stuti-kusumāñjali-ṭīkā* (called *Śiṣya-hitā*) in 1681 A.D., and a *Yudhiṣṭhira-vijaya-kāvya-ṭīkā* in 1672 A.D. (Aufrecht i 489b; Stein, *loc. cit*). These dates range from 1648 to 1681 A.D., during which apparently the literary activity of Ratnakaṇṭha falls.