A History of Sanskrit Literature c29.s3.1

c29.s3.1

The later schools present no features of essential interest and may be reviewed briefly. The oldest was probably the *Kātantra*,² ‘little treatise,’ called also *Kaumāra* or *Kālāpa*, the latter names indicating acceptance of the legend that its author Çarvavarman wrote under Çiva’s special favour. The legend which brings him into contact with Sātavāhana has been noted and its worth questioned.³ What is certain is that in Kashmir and Bengal the work had much influence, and that it affected deeply the Pāli grammar of Kaccāyana and the Dravidian grammarians. Originally of four books, it appears with supplements both in the Tibetan translation and in Durgasiṅha’s commentary; fragments have been found in Central Asia,⁴ and the *Dhātupāṭha* is extant only in the Tibetan version. In addition to Durgasiṅha’s *Vṛtti* on which he himself wrote a *Ṭīkā*, a sort of commentary is provided in Ugrabhūti’s *Çiṣyahitānyāsa* (1000).⁵ Tibetan tradition ascribes to Çarvavarman the use of the grammar of Indragomin, and this work seems to have been popular among the Buddhists of Nepal, but it is lost, though the reality of its author’s existence is certain.