Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c70.40

v1.c70.40

*P. 217 footnote 3 at p. 218.*—The attribution of the *Pañcāśikā* to Bilhaṇa is generally accepted (Winternitz *op. cit.* iii p. 117), and the poet Cora or Caura may not have anything to do with the *Pañcāśikā*; but it is curious to note that a verse from the *Pañcāśikā* (ed. Solf. no. 36) is quoted anonymously by Dhanika (ed. N. S. P. 1917, p. 85, on iv 23). The same verse is also quoted by Kuntala (i 49 *vṛtti*) who, like Bhoja (who quotes the *Pañcāśikā*, see above p. 144), may have been one of Bilhaṇa's contemporaries: but Dhanika certainly lived in the reign of Bhoja's predecessor Muñja and thus flourished presumably before the date generally assigned to Bilhaṇa. The same verse is attributed to one Kalaśa in *Subhāṣ* 1280 and in *Jalhaṇa* 74a. These facts may raise the doubt that the text as well as the authorship of the *Pañcāśikā* is by no means an absolutely settled fact.