A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.s9.2

c11.s9.2

¹ The critics occasionally find fault, e. g. in the *Vyaktiviveka* (p. 66) *Raghuvaṁça* xvi. 33 is censured for the position of *tadīye*, but they cite him repeatedly as a master, first of Mahākavis; *Dhvanyāloka*, pp. 29, 207; *Kāvyaprakāça*, p. 2. Bhāmaha's assertion that a cloud is not suitable as a messenger must refer to the *Meghadūta* and may be put beside his attack on Bhāsa's *Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa*, proved by T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī; cf. Thomas, JRAS. 1925, p. 103, who (pp. 100 ff.) deals effectively with the attacks on the authenticity of Bhāsa's dramas. His verse (*Subhāṣitāvali*, 1353) is imitated in *Ragh.* viii. 66; GIL. iii. 159, n. 1.