A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s3.3

v3.c35.s3.3

History of court poetry would go back at least as far as the 4th century B.C., when lived the great grammarian and poet Pāṇini, to whom is ascribed also the authorship of two epics, namely Pātālavijaya and Jāmbavatī- vijaya, as well as of not a few verses, quoted in anthologies¹. None of the two epics has come down to us, and consequently it is not certain whether the Pātālavijaya and the Jāmbavatīvijaya are two different works or just two titles of one and the same work. Rājaśekhara in the following verse says:—