Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c65.s6.48

v1.c65.s6.48

The author was the son of Yajñeśvara and Sarvāmbikā (or Ambikāmbā), grandson of Timmaya Somayājin, and brother and pupil of Koṇḍubhaṭṭa. He bore the surname of Dakṣiṇāmūrti-kiṅkara. His family came from Cerukūru on the Kṛṣṇā river, which Hultzsch thinks to be identical with modern Peddacerukūru near Bāpaṭla. He is identical with Lakṣmīdhara, author of the Prakrit grammar Ṣaḍbhāṣācandrikā, and also wrote commentaries on the Anargharāghava, Prasanna-rāghava and Gīta-govinda. In the first of these commentaries it is said that after having led the life of a householder for a long time, he travelled to different countries and conquered all literary opponents, and then having renounced the cares of the world he became a sannyāsin or yati with the name Rāmānanda or Rāmānandāśrama, under a guru called Kṛṣṇāśrama. Lakṣmīdhara (who is also sometimes called Lakṣmaṇabhaṭṭa or Lakṣmaṇa Sūri) was patronised by Tirumalarāja, probably Tirumala I of the Vijayanagar dynasty¹, to whom his Śruti-rañjanī commentary on Jayadeva's Gīta-govinda is sometimes attributed².