A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s9.84

v3.c35.s9.84

Smaller collections of proverbs—whether compilations or independent, poems, a thing that cannot be confirmed, are the Nītisāra, ascribed to Ghaṭakarpara, the Nīti-pradīpa of Vetālabhaṭṭa and the Nītiratna, ascribed to Vararuci¹. Vararuci is best known as the author of a Prākrit grammar, but in anthologies stanzas written by him too are found, and Rājaśekhara mentions him in the list of his predecessors¹. The following verses attributed to Vararuci in the Nītiratna are worthy of a good poet:—