Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c34.1

v1.c34.1

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