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XXVI
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
After the publication of the Avantisundarikathasara in the name of Dandin, the relation between Dandin and Bharavi is made clear. Bharavi was Dandin's grandfather and even in the days of Bharavi they had come down from the north to Kāūcipuram and lived under the patronage of the Pallava Kings Mahendravarman and Narasimhavarman. The dates of Mahendravarman and Narasihmavarman fall in the beginning of the 7th century of the Christian Era. This date well nigh agrees with the other facts known to us. Prabhakara quotes from the Kirātārjuniya and we know that Prabhakara lived in the middle of the 7th century. The Aihole inscription of Pulakesin dated 634 A. D. refers to Bharavi as a great poet. These facts lend much support to the view that Bharavi should have flourished in the end of the 6th century and probably also in the opening decade of the 7th century.
There are two commentaries on the Kiratarjunlya preserved in this library. The one is the famous commentary of Mallinatha. The other (No. 3187) is anonymous and refers to previous commentaries upon it. Unfortunately this cemmentary is preserved in an incomplete form.
MAGHA.
Magha's Sisupalavadha is next described in Nos. 8188-3372. The date of Magha is still a problem. Dr. Keith places him after 700 A. D. He argues that Magha knew the Käsikävṛtti and the Nyasa of Jinendrabuddhi thereon. He further says that Magha
knew the Vasavdatta of Subandhu. But on the other hand, it has been shown in a recent note in the Journal of Oriental Research Vol. IV that Magha should be considered to be earlier than Bhartṛhari, the author of the Bhagavṛtti. We know that Bhartṛhari died in 650 A. D. The date of Magha remains therefore unsettled problem.
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