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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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Della mahattara
Mentioned as pupil of Sûrâcharya and guru of Durgasvâmin by Siddharshi, the author of the Upamitibha vaprapancha. A MS. of this work obtained for Government this year shows that Siddharshi's reference to Sûrâchârga and Dellamahattara should run as follows:
योतिताखिलभावार्थः सद्भच्याष्जप्रबोधकः । सुराचार्योभवहीनः साक्षादिव दिवाकरः ।। १॥ स निवृत्तिकुलोद्भुतो लाटदेशविभूषणः । आचारपंचकोद्युक्तः प्रसिद्धो जगतीतले ॥२॥ अभूतहितो धीरस्ततो देल्लमहत्तरः ।
ज्योतिर्निमित्तशास्त्रज्ञः प्रसिद्धादेशविस्तरः || ३ ॥ Siddbarshi goes on to say that Durgasvâmin (the pupil of our Dellamahattara) took with himself dikshâ from Garga. This last is noted as a Jain astronomer : and it is possible that we are to understand that Dellamahattara (“jyotirnimittaśâstrajna ") and Garga are the same. 3, App. p. 147.
Dronacharya
Of the Nirvșitika kula. He was at the head of the pandits who corrected Abhayadeva's commentary on the Jnâtádbarmakathî in Samvat 1120. 1, App. p. 36. v. 10. Compare Weber, II. p. 401, p. 819, p. 992, 1. 18. Indische Studien, XVI. p. 277. Also our entry Abhayadeva. Droņacharya himself wrote a commentary on the Oghaniryakti (No. 1213 of this Report's collection is a copy of that work. Also No. 95 of Bühler's collection of 1872-73, Gough, p. 109).
Dhananjaya -
Author of the Dhanjayi Namamâlâ. A Jain writer. 3, App. p. 217. He is called in the colophons Dhananjayakavi. He may therefore be the same as the poet whose skill in “dvisandhana" poetry is, according to an extract in the Harihârâvali, praised by Rajasekhara. 2, p. 59, Nos. 511-2 in my collection of 1884-86 are copies of a "dvihsandhâna” kavya, called Raghavapândavîya, by Dhananjaya (No. 511 with the commentary of.Nemichandra). Cf. 2, p. 61 note.
