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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c55.s3: 3. Aṇuratnamaṇḍana Or Ratnamaṇḍana Gaṇi

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c55.s3

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3. Aṇuratnamaṇḍana Or Ratnamaṇḍana Gaṇi

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a. *Jalpa-kalpalatā

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(Weber 1722, long extract given ii pp. 278-80).

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This Jaina author was a pupil of Ratnaśekhara Sūri of Tapāgaccha, who died in *saṃvat* 1517 = 1461 A.D., and therefore belonged roughly to the middle of the 15th century. The work, in three *stavakas*, gives practical instruction on composition (*kavi-śikṣā*)¹.

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¹ For Ratnaśekhara, see Bhandarkar *Rep.* 1883-84, pp. 156-7: Peterson iv p. ciif: *IA* xi p. 256.

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b. *Mugdha-medhākara* (Peterson vi p. xv, extract given at p. 31). A manual on poetic figures and kindred topics.

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4. ANANTĀRYA

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*Kavi-samaya-kallola* (Madras Cat. 12808, extract).

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This South Indian writer was the son of Śiṅgarācārya. The work cites from Dharma-sūri, Narasiṃha's *Nañjarāja-yaśo-bhūṣaṇa*, and *Pratāparudrīya*; and therefore could not be earlier than the 14th century. He refers to another work by himself, called *Kṛṣṇarāja-yaśo-ḍiṇḍima*.

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5. ANANTA

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*Sāhitya-kalpavallī* (Aufrecht i 13a).

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6. AMṚTĀNANDA YOGIN

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*Alaṃkāra-saṃgraha* (ed. Calcutta 1887 with Engl. trans. Aufrecht i 29a ; Madras Cat. 12794, extract).

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The work consists of 5 chapters dealing with (1) *varṇa-gaṇa* (2) *śabdārtha* (3) *rasa* (4) *nāyaka-bheda* (5) *alaṃkāra*. The author says that he wrote this work at the request of Manvasamudra, son of Bhaktibhūmipati, who was a devotee of Śiva. It appears from the introductory verse that the author also intended to deal with *guṇa*, *doṣa* and *daśarūpaka*. He is probably identical with the Tāntrika Amṛtānanda who corrected (Weber p. 361) the *Tantra-sāra* of Kṛṣṇānanda.

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7. ALLARĀJA or MALLARĀJA

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*Rasa-ratna-dīpikā* (Aufrecht i 495b, ii 116a).

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A work of this name is cited by Bhānudatta in his *Rasa-taraṅgiṇī*, and by Ratnakaṇṭha on Mammaṭa (Peterson ii p. 17). See above p. 245, fn 5. The work is called *Rasa-ratna-pradīpa* by Allarāja in Bhandarkar *Rep.* 1884-87, no. 533.

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8. INDRAJIT

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*Rasika-priyā* (Peterson vi no. 379).

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The author also wrote a *Bāla-bodha* commentary on the *Vairāgya-śataka* (Aufrecht iii 13b).

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9. KACCHAPEŚVARA DĪKSITA

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*Rāmacandra-yaśo-bhūṣaṇa* (Madras Cat. 12950, extract).

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The author was the son of Vāsudeva and grandson of Kālahastīśvara who was a native of Brahmadeśa, a village in the North Arcot District, and the writer of a commentary on the *Bhāgavata*. His grandfather had two other sons, named Nārāyaṇa and Kṛṣṇa, his father being the second son. The work consists of three chapters dealing with the *rasas*, viz. (1) *śṛṅgāra* (2) the other 8 *rasas* (3) *bhāva-nirūpaṇa*. The illustrations are in praise of the valour of Bommarāja (probably of the Karvetnagar zamindary in North Arcot).

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10. KANDĀLAYĀRYA

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*Alaṃkāra-śirobhūṣaṇa*

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(Rice 283 anon.; Hultzsch i no. 371, extract at p. 75; *Madras Trm A* 168).

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The author was the son of Rāmānujārya and grandson of Keśavārya of the Ayaturi family. He probably lived at the court of either Veṅkaṭa I or II of the third Vijayanagar dynasty¹, and was thus a contemporary of Appayya Dīkṣita.

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¹ Hultzsch *ibid.* p. viii.

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