A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.165

v3.c35.s8.165

¹ This verse, however, stands in opposition to the preceding one, in which the poet tells his enemies—'happiness and fame will again soon get into his house'. The difficulties that are created by these two stanzas have been removed neither by Bühler, nor by Solf, nor by Jacobi. [S. K. De, HSL p. 369 is of the opinion that "Bilhaṇa's authorship can be asserted with as little confidence as that of Cora (in spite of Jayadeva's mention of a poet of that name in the Prasannarāghava) or of Sundara. It is, on the other hand, not improbable that the stanzas were old floating verses of forgotten authorship, which were ascribed to Bilhaṇa, Cora, Sundara and Vararuci in turn, and different legendary frame-stories were supplied."]