A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s5.22

v3.c35.s5.22

⁶ That the name of the poet is Śrīharṣa and not Harṣa is proved by the fact that in the colophons to the cantos of Naiṣadhacarita he calls himself “Śrīharṣa”. At the same place he gives the names of his father and mother as Hīra and Māmalladevī and enumerates the titles of many of his written works, of which the philosophical Khaṇḍana-khaṇḍa-khādya alone is extant. Bühler (JBRAS 10, 1871, 31ff., 1874, 279ff.) on the basis of statements in Rājaśekhara’s Prabandhakośa has determined his age. K.T. Telang (Ind. Ant. 2, 71 ff.; 3, 81ff.) and Rāma Prasāda Chanda (Ind. Ant. 42, 1913, 83 f., 286f.) doubt its credibility and like to place the poet in 9th or 10th century A.D. Cf. D. R. Bhandarkar, ibid p. 83 n; Peterson, Subh. 136f. and Krishnamacharya 44ff.