Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c87.62

v2.c87.62

*P. 97, l. 10.* Pathak (introd. to *Meghadūta* p. xivf) distinguishes our Vallabhadeva from Vallabhadeva, the grandfather of Kayyaṭa; for our Vallabha, who also commented on the four standard *kāvyas*, quotes, according to Pathak, from Halāyudha and Kṣīrasvāmin, and therefore must be much later than what his identification with Kayyaṭa's grandfather would warrant. But the evidence does not seem to be conclusive, as there is nothing to show that these are cases of real borrowings, or that these late writers did not themselves borrow the passages in question from our Vallabha himself.