A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.161

v3.c35.s8.161

³ Neither the title nor its meaning is certain. The titles Caurapañcāśikā and Corapañcāśat too occur. That would mean "Fifty Stanzas of the Thief, Caura or Cora". This has led people to think of a poet Caura or Cora as its author. This ostensible name of the poet occurs first of all in Jayadeva’s Prasannarāghava. But there should be no doubt about Bilhaṇa’s being this poet according to Bühler, (Report 48 f. and Vikramāṅkadevacarita, p. 24. However, the theme of the poem and its association with the tale that is told about it make it the more doubtful. The text of the Central Indian recension together with Bhartṛhari's centuries has been edited by P. v. Bohlen Berolini 1833, and in Haeberlin 227 ff. The fifty stanzas constitute just an enclosure in the South Indian recension, edited and translated by Ed. Ariel (JA 1848, s. 4, XI, 469 ff.) and in the small poem Bilhaṇacarita "Adventures of Bilhaṇa" that has been published in the Kāvyamāla, Part XIII, 1903, 145-169, wherein the story of Bilhaṇa's love with a princess is narrated, though differently in each of the two editions. In ‘Die Kaśmir-Recension der Pañcāśikā" the text has been critically discussed, edited and translated into German by W. Solf, Kiel 1886. Cf. also Jacobi in the Literaturblatt. für Orientalische Philologie III, 63 ff. and Winternitz in Oesterr Monatsschrift für den Orient 12, 1886, 155 ff.