Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c43.10

v1.c43.10

The quotations in the *Ratnapaṇa* are numerous and include, besides other well-known names, the *Śṛṅgāra-prakāśa* of Bhoja, the *Ekāvalī*, the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa* (p. 245), Cakravartin and his *Saṃjīvanī* commentary on Ruyyaka, Siṅgabhūpāla and his *Rasārṇava-sudhākara*, the author's own father Mallinātha and brother Peddayārya, Bhaṭṭa Gopāla and Narahari Sūri. There are numerous references to a work on *rasa*, called *Bhāva-prakāśa*, a MS of which, recently acquired by the Madras Oriental Library, makes it out to be an epitome of Bhoja's larger *Śṛṅgāra-prakāśa* and gives the name of the author as Śāradātanaya (q.v.). Mention is also made of Vasantarājīya Nāṭya-śāstra, its author Vasantarāja (q.v.) being apparently the king of Kumāragiri of the same name, who was a patron of Kāṭayavema. A Kavikalpadruma-kāra is also cited at p. 170, but this is a work on grammar (*dhātupāṭha*) by Vopadeva. We know nothing of the *Nāṭaka-prakāśa* cited at p. 113. The *Rasa-nirūpaṇa* may be by Narahari Sūri, and the *Sāhitya-cintāmaṇi* is probably the work of the same name composed by Vīranārāyaṇa (q.v.)¹.