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KALPADRUKOSA
The commentary of Bharatamallika, or Bharatasena, son of Gauranga mallik a, is a very excellent work; copious and clear, and particularly full upon the variations of orthography according to different readings or different authorities; the etymologies are given conformably with Vopadeva's system of grammar. The author fiourished in the middle of the last (i.e., 18th) century.' We venture to differ as regards the date. The author has been several times quoted' by Durgadasa in his commentary on the Kavikalpadruma of Vopadeva which was composed in A.C. 1639."
The Sarasundari of Mathuresa Vidyala ǹkara, son of Sivarama Cakravartin and Pārva ti, was composed in 1666.* 'It is perspicuous and abounds in quotations from other commentaries; . Supadma is
mentator.
the grammar followed in the derivations stated by the comMathureśa is author likewise of a vocabulary in verse entitled Sabdaratnavati (see p. xliv, below), arranged in the same order with the Amarakosa.'
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Colebrooke, Preface to his ed. of Amarakosa, p. viii. Cf. "क्षि श वासगत्याराधारे क्तिः" इत्यमरटीकायां भरतः - Kavikalpa
druma (Jivananda's ed.), p. 33, 1. 5.
"घनन्तोऽपि क्वचिन्नपुंसकमिति धातुप्रदीपे" इत्यमरटीकायां भरतः — Ibid., p. 47, 1. 16.
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' शाके सोमरसेषु भूमिगणिते श्री सार्वभौमात्मजो दुर्गादास इमां चकार विशदाटीकां स्वबोधादपि । Ind. off. Cat., p. 240. 'गजातथियुक शाके विद्यालङ्कारधीमता । लिङ्गादिसंग्रहे टीकां निर्ममे सारसुन्दरीम् ॥ शिवरामचक्रवर्ती जनकः पार्वती प्रसूः । यस्य स मथुरेशो ऽसौ चकार सारसुन्दरीम् ॥
Ind. off. Cat., p. 275. "Colebrooke, op. cit., p. ix.
