History of Classical Sanskrit Literature c19.s2.33

c19.s2.33

The life of Vyāsarāya is described in the Vyāsayogicaritacampū by Somanātha,¹² which was continued by Śrīvidyāratnākarasvāmi,¹³ and the poem Vyāsavijaya. Somanātha's prose is enchanting. The reader feels as if it is Kādambarī. He is reported to be the sister's son of Anantabhaṭṭa, author of Campūbhārata, who lived about 1500 A.D. Somanātha was introduced to his hero Vyāsarāya in the reign of King Acyutadevarāya and must have lived about 1535 A.D. Somanātha's grand-father Bhaṭṭa Gayāmukṭi Bhāskara, known as Kālameghādhvarin, was a great poet.¹⁴