Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c65.s8: 72. Vasantarāja
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72. Vasantarāja
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*Nāṭya-śāstra*
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The author is known as the king of Kumāragiri and quoted by Kāṭayavema as his patron¹. The work is cited by Kumārasvāmin as *vasanta-rājīya* p. 178, by Mallinātha on *Śiśu* ii 8 and by Sarvānanda on *Amarakoṣa*². These citations make it clear that this metrical work on dramaturgy can not be later than the 14th century. This *Nāṭya-śāstra* is also mentioned in a commentary on the Southern recension of the *Śakuntalā* by Kāṭayavema who is described as a minister of king Vasantarāja of Kumāragiri. This commentary proposes to follow the exposition of Vasantarāja’s *Nāṭya-śāstra* (IOC vii p. 1575-76).
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¹ Burnell 173a.
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² ŚgS ii p. 30.
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73. VIṬṬHALEŚVARA or VIṬṬHALA DĪKSITA a. *Riti-vṛtti-lakṣaṇa* (Kielhorn, Central Prov. Cat. p. 104) b. *Śṛṅgāra-rasa-maṇḍana* (Aufrecht i 661a, ii 158a, 230b, iii 137b).
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The author, also called Agnikumāra, was the son of Vallabhācārya the famous religious reformer, and brother of Gopīnātha, and father of seven sons, Giridhara, Raghunātha and others. He was born in 1515 A.D. For his other works, see Aufrecht i 572a, and b, 135a, 225a, iii 121a.
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74. VIDYĀRĀMA *Rasa-dirghikā* (Peterson iii no. 336).
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75. VIŚVANĀTHA *Sāhitya-sudhā-sindhu* (Aufrecht ii 171a, 234a). This South Indian author, who wrote in Benares, was the son of Trimala or Trimalla Deva and grandson of Ananta of Dhārāsura city on the Godāvarī. Stein’s Kashmiriān MS¹ is dated in 1602 A.D.² He quotes at the beginning of his work from Mammaṭa and Bhoja, and elsewhere cites Caṇḍīdāsa (probably the same as the commentator on Mammaṭa) and Mahimabhaṭṭa. The work is in eight taraṅgas. Viśvanātha also wrote a drama called *Mrgāṅkalekhā*.
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¹ Jammu Cat. p. xxix.
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² Stein speaks of a MS “transcribed from an autograph copy of the author. In the colophon referring to this original copy, which is added by another hand at the end of the Jammu MS, the date saṃvat 1659 (= A.D. 1602) can be made out with difficulty.”
Linked texts (7)
- Śiśupālavadha — Māgha, Sanskrit
- Nāṭyaśāstra — Bharata, Sanskrit
- Tibetan translation ('Chi med mdzod) — Classical Tibetan
- Abhijñānaśākuntala — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit
- Sāhityasudhāsindhu — Viśvanātha 1577, Sanskrit
- Mṛgāṅkalekhā — Viśvanātha 1775, Sanskrit
- Śṛṅgārarasamaṇḍana — Viṭṭhalanātha 1518, Sanskrit