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of Acārya Dandin. There is also strong evidence to ascribe the Dašakamāracarita to Dandin. Tradition is quite in favour of this attribution. In the colophons of the manascripts of the Dasakumāracarita, we find Dandin being mentioned as the author of the work. The colophon in one paper manuscript (14035 A of this library) is as follows:'इति दण्डिनः कृतौ दशकुमारचरिते अपहारवर्मचरितं नाम द्वितीय उच्चासः।' In another palm leaf manuscript (10635), again, we ind the name of Danrin being mentioned :
'इति श्रीदण्डिविरचिते दशकुमारचरिते प्रथमं चरितम् ।'
On this question, new light is forthcoming from an old Sanskrit work, Abhijñāna Sakantala Carcā, by an anonymous author now being published in the Sanskrit Journal of this institation (vide Vol. VII. No. 1. p. 9). A passage from the Dasakamāracarita is quoted in the Carca with the preface 3778 cost. This also sopports the tradition of Dandin's authorship of "the Dasakumāracarita. There is doubt as to the authorship of the available version of the Pūrvapithikā of that work, but that question does not require detailed consideration here, as we are nct directly concerned with that.
The facts stated above in regard to the authorship of the Avantisandarī and the Dasakumāracarita are sufficient to ascribe both the works to Acārya Dandin. Bat some scholars and critics cannot willingly accept that both these are works by the same author, on account
