Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c40.6

v1.c40.6

There is another less known commentary, called Rākigama or *Sulhā*, composed by Gāgābhaṭṭa, *alias* Viśveśvara, son of Dinakara Bhaṭṭa who was a Mīmāṃsaka. Viśveśvara, who also wrote a number of Mīmāṃsā and Smṛti works (Aufrecht i 587b), was a great-great-grandson of Rāmeśvara, nephew of the well-known Mīmāṃsaka Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa, whose date, as we have seen, is the first quarter of the 17th century². Viśveśvara, therefore, is a comparatively modern writer who probably flourished in the beginning of the 18th century, and should not be confused with Viśveśvara, author of the Alaṃkāra-kaustubha.