Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c40.3

v1.c40.3

There is another commentary called *Ramā*² written by Vaidyanātha Pāyaguṇḍa, who may not be identical with Vaidyanātha Tatsat, the commentator on Govinda's *Kāvya-pradīpa* and Appayya's *Kuvalayānanda*, although the two writers are taken as identical in most catalogues. The colophon to their commentaries distinctly make out their respective family-names as Pāyaguṇḍa and Tatsat; while in one of the introductory verses of the Ramā our Vaidyanātha calls himself distinctly Pāyaguṇḍa but does not give his own genealogy¹.