A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s6.68

v3.c35.s6.68

⁴ From Bāṇa's Harṣacarita, Introductory verse 15, Peterson (Kādambarī, Intr. p. 77ff.) first of all concluded that Pravarasena was the writer of Setubandha. It is also possible that he was simply a patron of an unknown poet. Cf. Lévi, Théatre Indien, App. p. 58 and see above p. 49; Konow, Karpūramañjarī, p. 194 ff. [WK—Pravarsena was of the Vakataka family, a grand'son of Candragupta II, identified with Pravarasena II of Kashmir [thus also Keith, HSL, 97]. It was even supposed that the poem was composed by Kālidāsa on the occasion of construction of the boat-bridge over the Vitastā (Jhelum) by Pravarasena II (see Rājatarangiṇī, III, 358). Cf S. Lévi, Theatre Indien, App., p. 58; Konow, Karpūramañjari in HOS, Vol. 4, p. 194 f. F. G. Peterson (JRAS, 1926, p. 725f.) considers the statement of Rāmadāsa (on I, 9) that Kālidāsa wrote the poem to be correct. The colophon at the end (Km. ed.) describes it as the joint work of Pravarasena and Kālidāsa. See also S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar in Ashutosh Mem. Vol., p. 152f. It is not probable that a Māhārāṣṭrī poem should have been written in Kashmir of all places. S. K. De, HSI., p. 119 thinks that the date of Pravarsena is unknown and that probably he may have reigned in Kashmir in the 5th century A. D.]