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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c62: 36. Devanātha

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c62

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36. Devanātha

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*Rasika-prakāśa* (Aufrecht i 497b).

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The author is probably the same as Devanātha Tarkapañcānana who wrote a commentary on *Mam-maṭa* (see above p. 187). A Devanātha is cited by Bharatamallika (18th century) on *Bhaṭṭi* x 73.

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37. DEVAŚAṄKARA, surnamed Purohita *Alaṃkāra-mañjūṣā*, (Aufrecht ii 6b; Bhandarkar, *Rep.* 1887-91 p. lxiiif, extract).

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The author, a Guzerat Brahmin, was the son of Nāhanābhai and a native of Rāner, (Rānder near Surat) and lived at Uraḥpattana (probably Olpāḍ in the same district). The work deals with poetic figures alone, and the illustrations sing the glory of the Peswas Mādhava Rāo I and his uncle Raghu-nātha Rāo (1791-1768 A.D.). The author, therefore, belongs to the third and fourth quarters of the 18th century.

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38. DHARMADĀSA SŪRI *Vidagdha-mukha-maṇḍana*, with *vṛtti* (Ed. Haeberlin in Kāvyasaṃgraha, Calcutta 1847, p. 269f. Printed many times in India: but ed. N. S. P. 1914 is useful. MSS: Aufrecht i 572b, ii 135b, 225a, iii 121a).

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Commentaries on this work are numerous:
(1) By Jinaprabha Sūri, pupil of Jinasimha Sūri, (Weber 1728). For this Jaina writer, whose known dates are 1293 and 1309 A.D., see Peterson iv p. xxxvii and Klatt’s Onomasticon. His *guru* Jinasimha founded the Laghu-kharatara-gaccha in 1275 A.D. The date of our commentator, therefore, will be the last quarter of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century.

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(2) Commentary by Ātmārāma. Aufrecht i 573a. The full name of this writer appears to be Svātmārāma Yogindra.

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(3) *Vidvan-manoramā* by Tārācandra Kāyastha. Aufrecht i 573a, ii 135b, iii 121a. For his other works, see ibid i 229a.

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(4) *Śravaṇa-bhūṣaṇa* by Narahari Bhaṭṭa. Aufrecht i 573a.

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(5) *Subodhinī* by Trilocana. Aufrecht ii 135b (extract in Stein p. 274).

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(6) Commentary by Śivacandra. Aufrecht iii 121a.

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(7) ºṭīkā by Durgādāsa, son of Vāsudeva and pupil of Bhaṭṭa Devacandra. Aufrecht ii 135b, iii 121a. Extract in Peterson iv p. 36.

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The work of Dharmadāsa is in 4 *paricchedas*, dealing with enigmatology and *citra-kāvya*. The concluding verse in the Bombay edition of the text (wanting in Br. Mus. MS, Bendall no. 427), as well as the first verse (which invokes Śaudhodani) and the colophon to Jinaprabha's commentary, makes the author a Buddhist ascetic. The known dates of Jinaprabha put the limits of Dharmadāsa's date earlier than the last quarter of the 13th century. This work is also cited by name by Kumārasvāmin (p. 122 = iv 1), by Rāya-mukuṭa on Amara¹, and quoted in the *Paddhati* of Śārṅgadhara. These citations themselves would put the date of our author earlier than the 14th century.

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¹ Composed 1431 A.D. : see Bhandarkar *Rep.* 1883-84, p. 63.

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39. DHARMASUDHĪ or DHARMA SŪRI *Sāhitya-ratnākara* (ed. by Tiruvenkaṭācārya with commentary, Madras 1871; ed. Nellore 1885. Aufrecht i 716a, 795b, ii 171a, iii 148a: *Madras Trm A* 306, extract; *Madras Cat.* 12970-75: *HPS* ii no. 246, extract).

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The author's name is given variously as Dharma-siṃha or Dharma-paṇḍita. He belonged to a Benares family distinguished for the high proficiency of its members in philosophical studies, and his genealogy is thus given (Hultzsch i p. 70): Tripurāri→Dharma→Pārvateśa→Dharma Sūri. He was also the author of a drama, called *Naraka-dhvaṃsa* (a *vyāyoga*) or *Narakāsura-vijaya*¹. The author is cited by Anantārya (q. v.) in his *Kavi-samaya-kallola*. A commentary on this *Sāhitya-ratnākara*, called *Nauka*, by Veṅkaṭa Sūri is mentioned in *Madras Trm B* 444 and *Madras Cat.* 12974-75. Veṅkaṭa Sūri was the son of Lakṣmaṇa Sūri and Sūramāmbā, and grandson of Brahmāntara-vāṇi and disciple of Veṅkaṭācārya. The *Sāhitya-ratnākara* is in 10 *taraṅgas*, dealing with the conventional topics of the science. Dharma Sūri must have been later than Vidyānātha; for in one of his verses he anonymously ridicules Vidyānātha's method of praising his patron (*alaṃkriyāḥ pūrvataraiḥ praṇītāḥ | prayogitāḥ kāścana nāyakena | kaiścit tu kukṣimbharibhir nibadhāḥ | kṣodiyasā kāścana nāyakena*)

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¹ Ed. Madras 1884; Hultzsch 323, Aufrecht i 277a.

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40. NARASIMHA or NṚSIMHA KAVI

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*Nañjarāja-yaśo-bhūṣaṇa* (Aufrecht i 274b, ii 59b, iii 59b; *Madras Trm A* 19; *Madras Cat.* 12896-99).

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The author, son of Śivarāma-sudhī-maṇi, was patronised by Nañjarāja, whose name is borne by the title of his work and whose glory it sings in the illustrative verses. This prince flourished in the beginning of the 17th century. Narasimha also wrote a drama called *Candrakalā-pariṇaya*¹.

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¹ *SgS* i no. 45 (called *Candrakalā-kalyāṇa*) p. 5, 82.

41. Narasimhācārya Or Veṅkaṭa Nrsimha Kavi

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Alaṃkāréndu-śekhara

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(Madras Cat. 12978, extract, contains the first *prakaraṇa* only).

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This South Indian author was the son of Dasamācārya of Śrīśaila family, and wrote a commentary on a work on music, called *Śānta-vilāsa*, composed by Subrahmaṇya Sudhī (alias Hariśāba Kavīndra) son of Harirāya and grandson of Kṛṣṇarāya of Cariṣṇusāla village. He refers to a *Gīta-mañjarī* by this Hariśāba Kavīndra and to a *campū* of his own called, *Jānakī-pariṇaya*. The work on Alaṃkāra mentioned above deals with (1) *nāyaka-lakṣaṇa* (2) *kāvya-svarūpa* (3) *rasa-lakṣaṇa*, especially *śṛngāra* (4) *doṣa* and *guṇa* and (5) *alaṃkāra*. Our author also wrote a commentary, called also *Alaṃkāréndu-śekhara*, on some *kārikās* on Poetics, entitled *Lakṣaṇa-mālikā*².

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² See Madras Cat. 12955 extract; *SgS* i 98-99 extract, also p. 11.

42. Narahari Sūri

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Rasa-nirūpaṇa

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This work and the author are mentioned by Kumārasvāmin at p. 224.

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