Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c58.5

v1.c58.5

The author was the son of Rāghavendra (described as *ācārya-śatāvadhāna*) and grandson of Kāśīnātha. He is the author of the *Vidvanmoda-taraṅgiṇī* (a champū)¹ and also of a work on prosody. The India Office MS (see *IOC* iii pp. 343-44, for a detailed summary of its contents) of the *Kāvya-vilāsa* consists of two chapters, dealing with *rasa* and *alaṃkāra* respectively, the illustrative stanzas being the author's own. The section on *śabdālaṃkāra* from this work has been printed and inadvertantly included in the text of Appayya's *Kuvalayānanda*, published by N. S. P. (ed. Vāsudeva, 1909) with Āsādhara's commentary². See above p. 267 fn 2. Cirañjīva wrote his *Vṛtta ratnāvalī*³ as a panegyric on Yaśovanta Siṃha, Nayeb-dewan of Dacca under Suja'u-d-daulah of Bengal, about *śaka* 1653 = 1731 A.D. He belongs therefore to the first half of the 18th century.