Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c65.2

v1.c65.2

The author was the son of Jīvana and Makū, of the Śrīmāla family of Malabar (*mālabhāra*), and his genealogy is given thus: Sādhu-sadepāla→Kora (ā?)→Pāma (ā?)→Govā→Yāmpaca→Jīvana. Jīvana's brother Megha and himself were ministers of Khalaci Sāhi Gayāsa; and Jīvana had two sons Puñja and Muñja. Puñja became king, but abondoning his kingdom to his younger brother, devoted himself to study, and wrote some works². The colophon³ to Puñjarāja's *Sārsvata-ṭīkā* says *śrīmālakula-śrīmāla-bhāraśrī-puñjarāja* on which Bhandarkar remarks that Puñjarāja was the ornament of the Mālava circle¹. Aufrecht thinks that the patron of Puñja's father and uncle was Ghiyās Shāh Khaljī of Mālava (about 1475 A.D.) and that Puñjarāja must have lived at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century.