Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c42.9

v1.c42.9

The date of Mallinātha, author of the *Taralā* commentary on the *Ekāvalī*, has also been fixed at the end of the 14th century by Bhandarkar and Trivedi¹. He must have written his commentary after a certain time had elapsed from the composition of the original text; for from *śl.* 6 it appears that the *Ekāvalī* was not studied for some time because it had no commentaries. He is identical with Kolācala Mallinātha Sūri (Peḍḍa Bhaṭṭa) who is the well-known scholiast and commentator on the five standard *mahākāvyas* of Kālidāsa, Bhāravi, Bhaṭṭi and Māgha, in some of which he quotes from the *Ekāvalī* itself.