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Alamkara, Samgita and Natya
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For editions of the text with commentaries see under the respective commentaries. For a complete bibliograbhy of Appaya Dikṣita's works see S. K. De : Sanskrit Poetics, Vol. I, pp. 271-4. In the same place (pp. 265 to 271 ). Dr. De discusses the date of Appayya Diksita and the merits of his works. According to Dr. De, the literary activity of Appayya Dikșita falls between 1549 and 1613 A, D. Appayya Dikșita may be assigned to the third and fourth quarters of the 16 century.
कुवलयानन्द
Kuvalayānanda
437, No. 144
1895-1902. Size.— 84 in. by 3& in. Extent.— 116 leaves ; 8 lines to a page ; 29 to 30 letters to a line. Description.-- Country paper, thin, musty and worn out and
brittle; damage to certain folios has been repaired by pasting slips of paper at the edges; very old in appearance; incomplete ; folio 59 missing ; Devanagari characters;
hand-writing neither uniformly clear nor legible. Age.- Saka 1752. Author.- Appayya Dikşita. Begins.--
श्रीगणेशाय नमः । श्रीरामाय नमः॥ अमरीकबरीभारभ्रमरी मुखरीकृतं ॥ fruita afta terer urdu 11 etc.
Ends
" एवमन्यत्राप्युदाहरणांतराण्यह्यानि ॥ असं कुवलयानंदमकरोदप्यदीक्षितः ॥ नियोगाव्यंकटपतेर्निरुपाधि कृपानिधेः॥
