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Kavyanusasana as we have referred to; -- the teacher of many worthy pupils. This Ganaratnamahodadhi is a work on grammar unique in its subject matter.
The other is the author of Vāgbhatālamkāra a work on poetics. This Vāgbhata is often confused with the minister Vágbhata. But the two are different. The minister Vägbhata was a son of Udayana while our author is a son of Soma as he himself says in a verse in this work. He was also a Jaina.
This work seems to have been finished between the conquest of Mālava and Jayasimha's death, for, it refers to the conquest of Mālava and has no verse in praise of Kumārapāla. It must have, therefore, been composed between V. S. 1192 and V.S. 1199-A. D. 1136–1143. Thus it was composed at the time when Hemachandra might have been composing his Anuşāsanas. The Kávyānuşāsana refers to Vāgbhața.
Another contemporary who also wrote upon Poetics may be mentioned. His name is Manikyachandra Āchārya, the second commentator on the Kāvyaprakāsa of Mammaţa and the first coinmentator outside Kāşmira. His commentary is known by the name of Samketa. It is one of the best commentaries, written in excellent style, on the K. P. * The commentary was finished in the year V. S. 1216-A.D. 1160 month Mādhava (Chaitra), according to the colophon at the end of the commentary.
This Māņikyachandra belonged to the line of Silabhadrasūri; the name of his direct preceptor was Sri Sāgareudu alias Sāgrāchandra. This Māņikyachandra is not to be confused with a pupil of Vādi Devasūri of that name.
* See Prof. R. B. Athavale's article on Mápikyachandra' in Puratattya Vol. I, pp. 181-187.
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