Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c51.8

v1.c51.8

² He is said to have lived to the ripe old age of 73 (see introd. to Hālāsyanātha’s ed. of *Kuvalayānanda* p. 15), and according to Kṛṣṇamācārya (*Hist. of Classical Sansk. Lit.* Madras 1906, p. 104) Appayya lived from 1554 to 1626 A.D. Veṅkaṭa, author of the *Viśvaguṇādarśa* and a grandson of Appayya, tells us that he hailed from Kāñci (or Conjeve-ram).