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attributed to Gajapati Puruşottamadeva. Here the author claims the authorship of four other works along with the nātaka mentioned above. The line referred to runs thus:
" गजपति-श्रीपुरुषोत्तमदेवमहाराजेन विरचितम् आनन्दविलासदशग्रीववध-जानकीप्रमोद-कुवलयाश्व-प्रभृतिविविधरूपरूपकसहोदरम्
अभिनव-वेणीसंहरणं नाम नाटकम् । Shri K. N. MAHAPATRA here suggests that DVM, the authorship of which is attributed to Gajapati Puruşottamadeva in the passage quoted above, is perhaps indentical with the DVM which was actually composed by Märkandeya. He contends that similar cases of attribution of authorship by the poets to their patrons are also found in the Süryavaṁśī period. “It is known from the “ Bharatāmrta Mahākāvyam” that its author Kavicandra Rāya Divākara Mis’ra, was also the author of a work named Abhinava Gitagovindan. But the authorshipof this work has been ascribed to Gajapati Puruşottamadeva, the patron of the poet.” Shri MAHAPATRA does not stop here and thus continues his argument:
“ Similarly, the authorship at Sarasvati -vilāsa and Pratāpā-Mürtanda, two famous works on Dharmaśāstra which were compiled by Lolla Lakşmīdhara Bhatta and Rāmakrsņa Bhatta respectively is claimed by Gajapati Pratāparudradeva, So it can safely be concluded that DVM was actually composed by Mārkandeya towards the close of the reign of Purușottamadeva as Gajapati was ruling when this work of Pratāparudra was finished. So 1500 A. D. may be approximately taken as the date of this work.”
Though the possibility of a patron king claiming the autborship of works composed actually by different
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