Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c70.43

v1.c70.43

P. 249-50.—B. N. Bhaṭṭācārya (op. cit. p.163) refers to a tradition among Bihar Pandits that Bhānudatta's father wrote the Rasa-ratna-dīpikā, and that his grandfather Śaṅkara Miśra, who wrote a commentary on Śrīharṣa's Khaṇḍana-khaṇḍa-khādya, flourished about 1405 A.D. But this tradition is unreliable in view of Bhānu's genealogy given by himself in his Kumāra-bhārgavīya, which tells us that the name of Bhānu's grandfather was Mahādeva and not Śaṅkara (see above p. 250), although the name of the fathers of both Śaṅkara and Mahādeva appears to be Bhavanātha.