A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.101

v3.c35.s2.101

⁶ Mammaṭa, son of Jayyaṭa, may have been a brother of the grammarian Kaiyaṭa and of the Vedic scholar Uvaṭa. On his age cf. Narasimhiengar, JRAS 1908, 63ff. and Gaṇapati Śāstrī, TSS No. V, p. 8 ff. In the opinion of many later rhetoricians Mammaṭa was the author of only the commentary on the kārikās, whose writer was Bharata. (But Bharata is quoted by Mammaṭa himself in Kāvyaprakāśa IV). The Sāhityakaumudī, published in Km. 63, 1897, by Vidyābhūṣaṇa, a disciple of the reformer Caitanya (born 1484 A.D.), probably may have been a commentary on the kārikās. The commentary and the manuscripts attest that Allaṭa (or Alaṭa, many manuscripts wrongly give Alaka) had worked upon the Kāvyaprakāśa in addition to Mammaṭa. Cf. Hari Chand a, Kālidāsa, p. 104.