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XXXII
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Cokkanathas were contemporaries, the son of Tippadhvarin, being the younger of the two. We are here concerned with the younger Cokkanatha, the author of the KantimatIparipaya Nāṭaka (Nos. 4889-41). The work was composed with the intention of immortalising the name of the author's patron, Sahaji. The author belonged to the early 18th century.
DHIRANAGA.
Speculation has been rampant regarding the authorship of the Kundamāla which is described in Nos. 4342-43. The colophon reads the name of the author as Dhiranaga but it was taken to be a mistake for Dinnaga and the editors of the work in the Dakaiņabharati series went into ecstacy for having discovered the drama of a contemporary of Kalidasa. Tradition holds that Dinnaga was a contemporary of Kaldasa and following the tradition and the identification of Dinnaga with the authorship of the Kundamāla, the work was dated in the 5th century.
Recently, the same editors of the Kundamälä have come round and in the latest advertisement of theirs have changed the name of the author to Dhiranaga.
Dhiranaga, the author of the Kundamala is certainly older than Viśvanatha, the author of the Sahityadarpana. The earliest and perhaps the only reference that we have been able to secure regarding the Kundamāla is to be found only in the Sahityadar papa. The author seems to have been a native of Andrādhāpura in Ceylon.
ATIRATRAYAJIN.
A scion of the family of Srimad Appayya Dikita, and the younger brother of the famous Nilakantha Dikaita, Atiratrayajin
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