History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.19

c6.19

पाणिनि in the several anthologies. Two questions arise: (1) Whether Pāṇini the poet is identical with Pāṇini the grammarian and (2) whether the names पातालविजय (in नमिसाधु on रुद्रट II. 8) and जाम्बवतीजय refer to the same work. On the first question opinion is divided. I think that we should rather adopt the cautious attitude so finely put by Peterson in his Intro. to सुभा० p. 58 (note). In H. I. Q. vol. 13 pp. 167-171 Mr. Krishnadeva Upadhyaya shows that the दुर्घटवृत्ति of शरणदेव composed in śaka 1095 (1173 A. D.) quotes three verses (not mentioned anywhere else, two of which are Upajātis and one अनुष्टुभ) from the 2nd, 5th and 18th cantos respectively of the जाम्बवतीविजय.