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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c34: Vidyā Cakravartin

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c34

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Vidyā Cakravartin

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A commentary, called *Saṃjīvanī*, on Ruyyaka (also variously styled *Alaṃkāra-saṃjīvanī* or *Sarvasva-saṃjīvanī*) is cited by Mallinātha² and Kumārasvāmin³. Appayya⁴ and Viśveśvara⁵ apparently refer to the author of this commentary by citing Cakravartin; for the two verses¹, thus cited by them, are attributed to this commentator by Kumārasvāmin, whose other references show that Cakravartin wrote a *Saṃjīvanī* commentary on the *Alaṃkāra-sarvasva*. This Cakravartin, who is to be distinguished from Paramānanda Cakravartin, appears to be identical with Śrī-vidyā Cakravartin (which was probably his full name), two MSS of whose commentary on Ruyyaka, called *Saṃjīvanī*, are noticed in the *Madras Catalogue*². This commentary refers to and is referred to by the same author's *Sampradāya-prakāśinī Bṛhatī Ṭīkā* on Mammaṭa³, and both the commentaries are mentioned together at the close of the former work thus

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² pp. 31, 57, 221, 237, 324.

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³ pp. 54 (*Cakravartin*, as commentator on *Alam. sarvasva*), 319, 377, 383 (*Saṃjīvanī* as a comm. on *Alam. sarv.*) 387, 393, 398, 435, 449-50, 465.

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⁴ *Citr. mīm.* p. 7.

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⁵ *Alam. kaust.* p. 11.

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¹ as cited above = *Ratnāpaṇa* p. 378. See other references to this author by Kumāra-svāmin given in p. 200 above, fn 3.

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² no. 12799-12800, pp. 8609-10. Jacobi wrongly conjectured Alaka to be the author of this *Saṃjīvanī* (*ZDMG* lxii p. 292).

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³ *ibid*, no. 12826-28, p. 8627; Burnell 55a. See above p. 188.

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kāvyaprakāśe'laṃkārasarvasve ca vipaścitām
atyādaro jagatyasmin, vyākhyātam ubhayam tataḥ,

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which indicates the popularity of the works of Mammaṭa and Ruyyaka in later times. Vidyā Cakravartin calls his author Rucaka and refers to him as *sāndhivigrahika*. He appears to be a South Indian writer, belonging to the Sampradāya sect. The reference by Mallinātha should place him chronologically earlier than the end of the 14th century.

I. Alaṃkāra-sarvasva

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Editions. (1) Kāvyamālā 35, 1893 (with Jayaratha's *Vimarśinī*) (2) Trivandrum Sansk. Series 40, 1915 (with *vṛtti* of Samudrabandha). Translated into German by H. Jacobi in *ZDMG* lxii pp. 289-336, 411-58, 597-628. (Our references are to the Kāvyamālā ed., unless otherwise specified).

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MSS. Aufrecht i 32b, ii 6b, iii 7b; *WBod* 495, 496: *WRAS* 151 (1).

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Commentaries. (1) *Alaṃkāra-vimarśinī* of Jayaratha, ed. with text in Kāvyamālā 35, 1893. MSS: Aufrecht i 32b, ii 6b. MSS of *Alaṃkārôdâharaṇa*: Aufrecht i 32b, 773a, ii 6b; *WBod* 1157.

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(2) *vṛtti* of Samudrabandha, ed. with text in Trivandrum Sansk. Series.

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(3) *Saṃjīvanī* of Vidyā Cakravartin. Madras Cat. 12799-12800: Aufrecht i 32b.

2. Sahṛdaya-līlā

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Editions. (1) Pischel (with Rudra's *Śṛṅgāratilaka*), Kiel 1886 (2) Kāvyamālā pt. v, 1908.

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MSS. Aufrecht i 705a

3. Comm. on the Vyakti-viveka

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Edition. With the text in Trivandrum Sansk. Series.

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