Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c53.20

v1.c53.20

The commentator on the *Rasa-gangādhara* is Nāgeśa or Nāgoji Bhaṭṭa, whose name we have already mentioned as a commentator on Mammaṭa, Govinda, Bhānudatta and Appayya. He was a Mahratta Brahmin (with the surname Kāla), son of Śiva Bhaṭṭa and Satī. He lived in Benares and was patronised by Rāmasiṃha of Śṛṅgavera-pura (near Allahabad). He is one of the latter-day grammarians, who composed a number of works and commentaries on grammar, poetics and philosophy. He was the pupil of Hari Dīkṣita, who was the son of Vireśvara Dīkṣita and great-grandson of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, the well-known author of the *Siddhānta-kaumudī*. Bhaṭṭoji is known as a pupil of Śeṣa Kṛṣṇa¹, whose son Śeṣa Vireśvara was, as we have noted, a teacher of Jagannātha himself. Nāgoji was thus separated from Jagannātha roughly by two generations, and flourished in the beginning of the 18th century. The India office MS of his commentary on