Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c47.32

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Mithilā, which agrees with Burnell's description of Bhānudatta as a native of Mithilā. As a Maithilī writer, it is not surprising that he was acquainted with the Gauḍīya Jayadeva's well-known lyric, and tried to emulate it with a similar work on Śiva and Gaurī. In another work called *Kumāra-bhārgavīya*¹ attributed to Bhānudatta, the author is called the son of Gaṇapati or Gaṇanātha (apparently the same as our author), and his pedigree is given thus: Ratneśvara→Sureśvara (author of *Śarīraka-bhāṣya-vārttika*)→Viśvanātha→Ravinātha→Bhavanātha→Mahādeva→Gaṇapati→Bhānudatta. Gaṇapati appears to have been a poet whose verses are quoted by Bhānudatta himself in his *Rasa-taraṅgiṇī*. One poet Gaṇapati is praised, in a verse ascribed to one Rājaśekhara in Jalhaṇa's anthology, as the author of the *Mahāmoda*. An *Alaṃkāra-tilaka* in five chapters and a *Śṛṅgāra-dīpikā* are also attributed appparently to our Bhānudatta.