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Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c65.s9: 76. Viśveśvara Bhaṭṭa

Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c65.s9

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76. Viśveśvara Bhaṭṭa

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a. *Alaṃkāra-kaustubha* (ed. Kāvyamālā 66, 1898; Aufrecht i 31b, 772b, ii 6a, 188a; *Madras Cat.* 12792-93)

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b. *Alaṃkāra-muktāvalī* (Aufrecht i 32a, ii 6b, 188a iii 7b; *Madras Cat.* 12792-3, extract)

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c. *Alaṃkāra-kula-pradīpa* (Aufrecht i 31b, ii 187b)

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d. *Kavīndra-karṇābharaṇa* (ed. Kāvyamālā pt. 8, 1891)

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e. *Rasa-candrikā* (*Madras Cat.* 12927; Stein 63).

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The author was the son of Lakṣmīdhara and was born in Ālmoḍa, where his descendants still live. He flourished in the beginning of the 18th century and died about its middle at the age of 34¹. In the first work, the author refers to two dramas called *Śṛṅgāra-mañjarī* (saṭṭaka) and *Rukmiṇī-pariṇaya* by himself; and the latest writers that he quotes appears to be Appayya Dīkṣita and Jagannātha. He cites also Mallinātha (p. 69) as a commentator on Daṇḍin (see above p. 73), Caṇḍidāsa (pp. 125, 166), Maheśvara (p. 49, 111) who is probably the commentator on Mammaṭa, cited as Nyāyālaṃkāra (p. 82), as well as a work called *Kāvya-ḍākinī*. The Nyāyapañcānana, so extensively quoted, is probably Jayarāma Nyāyapañcānana, another commentator on Mammaṭa. He gives the name of his elder brother as Umāpati (p. 387). The second work of our author, as he himself says, was written as an easier and briefer manual for beginners, after his first more extensive work. The fourth work deals in four chapters with enigmatology and *citrakāvya* (58 varieties). The fifth work deals with the different classes of heroes and heroines, and their characteristics. Viśveśvara was a scholiast of considerable activity and also wrote a commentary, called *Vyaṅgyārtha-kaumudī* or *Samañjasārtha* on Bhānudatta’s *Rasa-mañjarī* (see above p. 252). For his other works, see Aufrecht ii 139b. The *Kāvyamālā* editors (viii 52) mention two other works *Kāvya-tilaka* and *Kāvya-ratna* by Viśveśvara.

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¹ See Kāvyamālā pt. viii pp. 51-52 fn.

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