Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c53.14

v1.c53.14

Of comparatively recent writers, Jagannātha, besides citing Mammaṭa, Ruyyaka and Jayaratha extensively, refers to and quotes Vidyādhara (p. 254), Vidyānātha (p. 162) Viśvanātha (and the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa*, p. 7) and Appayya, and refers very often to the *navyāḥ*. The scathing criticism which he levels against Appayya as a slavish imitator of Ruyyaka and Jayaratha was no doubt prompted by the zeal of eclipsing the fame of another South Indian writer in the same field. Jagannātha also cites Śrīvatsa-lāñchana (p. 39), apparently the commentator on Mammaṭa, an unknown *Alaṃkārabhāṣyakāra* (pp. 239, 365, also referred to by Jayaratha), and Ratnākara (pp. 202, 207, 211, 221, 225, 281, 313, 480, 492 etc) which last name is also cited by Appayya. Jagannātha also refers to a work called *Alaṃkāra-ratnākara* (pp. 163, 165). An anonymous *Alaṃkāra-ratnākara* is mentioned in Burnell 54a; but Bühler¹ describes a work of that name by Śobhākaramitra, son of Trayīśvaramitra. Peterson informs us² that the Kashmiri poet Yaśaskara extracts some *sūtras* on *Alaṃkāra*³ from a work called *Alaṃkāra-ratnākara* by Śobhākaramitra, and illustrates them in his *Devī-stotra* by composing verses in praise of Devī, as the opening words of the latter work themselves show⁴. The work of Yaśakara in Stein is for this reason called *Alaṃkarōdāharaṇa-sannibaddha Devī-stotra*⁵. The Ratnākara of Jagannātha undoubtedly refers to this *Alaṃkāra-ratnākara* of Śobhākaramitra; for the citation from Ratnākara at p. 202 = *sūtra* 11 (as given in Peterson i p. 78).