A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s3.4

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¹ P. Peterson (JBRAS 17, 1889, 57ff; Subh. 54ff.) has particularly set himself to the task of identification of this poet with the grammarian. Before him already Pischel (ZDMG 39, 1885, 95ff., Gram. der Prākrit Sprachen, p. 33) proposed to place the grammarian in the 5th century A.D., an impossible dating, upon which he himself did not insist later (KG. 182f.). See against this Kielhorn, NGGW 1885, 185 ff., R. G. Bhandarkar, JBRAS 16, 344; D. R. Bhandarkar, Ind. Ant. 1912, 125 n. Recently Kane (Ind. Ant. 1912, 125) has again tried to prove the identity. Thomas, Kavīndrasamuccaya 51ff. (where is given a collection of the verses of Pāṇini) holds the question as still undecided. Th. Aufrecht (ZDMG 14, 581 f., 27, 46; 36, 365 ff.; 45, 308) has collected together and translated the stanzas ascribed to Pāṇini. Rāyamukuṭa, in a commentary written in 1431 A.D. on the Amarakoṣa (ascribed to him) has quoted a piece of a poem from Jāmbavatīvijaya. The poet Pāṇini has been cited by Ruyyaka too.