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WORKS AND AUTHORS REFERRED TO IN THE WORK
WORKS
Rāmāyana, Setabandhā Aušanasa, Bāhudantika.
Mahabharata, Kādambari, Bārbaspatya,
Brhatkathā, Manovati, Vaisālākşa,
Sabandha, Sarvasena, Mayūra,
AUTHORS Sõdraka, Kālidāsa, Bāņa.
Bbasa, Nārāyana,
DATE OF DANDIN. Different views are current about the date of Dandin. According to some, he belonged to the 6th century A.D., and according to others, to the 8th centary A.D. Bat from internal evidence in the Avantisandari his date can be fixed to the close of the 7th or the early part of the 8th century A. D.
The Gandharva states before the Pallava king Simhavienu that Damodara, the great-grand-father of Dandin, acquired the friendship of Prince Visnuvardhana through Bhāravi and that he was twenty years old when he was staying with King Darvinīta of the Ganga dynasty. This makes Simhavisnu, Darvinīta, Visnuvardhana, Bbāravi and Damodara contemporaries. Since in the literary history the only author known by the name Bhāravi is the author of Kirātārjuniya, and since the epithets महाशैव, महाप्रभाव and गवां प्रभव well apply to him, the Bharavi mentioned in this work should be identified with him. From the Aihole inscription in A.D. 634,
