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proper name and Māņdavya the family title or preceptors line side by side.
61. Referring to Kohala by name Mk comments on XXI, 1 ( Māgadhi Saurasenitaḥ ) quoting the view of thc former regarding the use of Mg in stage, viz.,
राक्षसीभिक्षुक्षपणकचेटाद्या मागधीं प्राहुरिति कोहलः which means that demons, Buddhist and Jains monks and male attendants etc. ( in a play ) speak Māgadhi according to Kohala. We have unfortunately no work extant attributed to Kobala. But he is traditionally known as the propagator of dramatic art. He is counted as one among many such traditional authors. The following verse gives such an account :--
ब्रह्मात्रिलोचनसमरिणकश्यपाश्च मातङ्गकाश्वतरकोहलनारदाश्च । नन्द्याञ्जनेयसुरपा भरतोऽम्बिकाद्या एते हि नाट्यरचनां विदधुः पुरा वै ॥3
Stray references to him are also found elsewhere. In NŚ we find the name of Kolāhala ( Kohala ? ) who is declared to propound dramatic theory in the world (XXXVII, 18 ). In another place in the same work ( 24 ) Kohela (Kohala ? ) is said to have written NŚ along with three more authors whe are Vatsa, Sāņdilya and Dhūrtita, Again the name of Kohala as a writer on Nrtyaśāsra occurs in the Kuttanimata (81) of Dāmodaragupta ( latter half of the 8th century ) along with Bh. India Office Library possesses a work on Tāla attributed to Kohalācārya. Hc in his Kāvyānusāsana speaks of Kolāhala (Kohala ? ) as writer on dramaturgy. In the Bālarāmāyana of Rājasekhara, mention of Kohala
2. For the meaning af mūndavya see MONIER WILLIAMS, Skt English Dic. p. 806.
3. Nātyamanoramā by Raghunātha, pub. by Orissa Sahitya Akademi, 1959.
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