Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c33: Samudrabandha

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c33

Language: English

Samudrabandha

v1.c33.1

Samudrabandha flourished, as he himself tells us, in the time of Ravivarman, alias Saṃgrāmadhīra, king of Kolamba in the Kerala country (Travancore), and there are numerous illustrative verses in the commentary itself, which sing the praise of this king¹. The editor of this commentary in the Trivandrum Series tells us that this king, who was probably an ancestor of the Maharaja of Travancore, was born in 1265 A. D., so that Samudrabandha may be taken to have flourished towards the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century.

v1.c33.2

¹ e. g. pp. 48, 58, 76, 133, 149 (*kolambādhipati*) etc.

v1.c33.3

The citations from earlier authors are not so numerous in Samudrabandha, but he shows his familiarity with Bhāmaha, Udbhaṭa, Vāmana, Rudraṭa, the Dhvanikāra and Ānandavardhana, Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka, the Vakrôktijīvita-kāra, Mahima-bhaṭṭa, Bhoja and Mammaṭa. He also cites Udbhaṭa's vivṛti, presumably on Bhāmaha's Kāvyālaṃkāra.

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Kāvyālaṅkārasūtra — Vāmana (poetician), Sanskrit