Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

SR No.: 032566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1913
Total Pages: 464
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XII.
Vijayanagara emperors seems to have sought and obtained a place similar to that of his father at the court of the Pandyas, who had already become the vassals of Vijayanagara. The relationship between these is shown in the accompanying table :
Sabhāpati.
Svayambhū.
Kāmakoti.
Rājanātha.
Rāma-kavi. In the comedy named Somavalli. Yogānanda-prahasana the following account of the author, Aruyagirinātha, is given : Nāgapna-kavi, who bore the several birudas Kavi-prabhu, Ashta-bhāsha-kavi, Kavi-naga-kësarin, eto., who was of the Sāms-Veda and who was a follower of the Srikanthāgama, bad a son named Rājanātha-Dēsika. He was married to AbbiramaNāyikā, the daughter of Dindim&-prabhu and sister of Sabhāpati of the Käsyapa gotra and the Sāma Vēda, whose ancestors bore the title Aghorafivācharyas. To these was born Arnnagirinātha. He held several distinguishing titles such as Dindima-kavi-sārvabhauma, Ohéra-Chola-Pāndya-prathamdrādhya-Dindima-kavi, Dasarüpa - Nārāyana birudamandanaDindima, Rasika-kavitā-samrajya Lakshmipati, Navanataka-bharatacharya, Kavimallagalla-tadanapatu,? Pratibhata-kavi-kunjara-panchānana, etc. The Saluvabhyudayam calls the father of its author, (that is, of Rējanātha-kavi), soņādrinātha. The author of the Bhagavatachampu, Achyutarāyābhyudayam, etc., was also a Rājanātha-kavi, whose father was also Sopädrinātha. From these facts we are forced to draw the conclusion that the Rējanātha-kavi of Sāļuvabhyudaya, Achyutarayabhyudaya and Bhagavatachampú was one and the same person ; but then it is not possible to explain why he wrote his Sāļuvābhyudaya long after the hero of that work was dead. 10 Nor are we in & position to assert that the author of the
उपस्ति खलु परन्द्राग्रहारनायकमरीः सामवेदसागरसायाधिकस्य अष्टभाषाकवितासाबाज्याभिषिकस्य बाळरायकटककविकलगर्वपर्वतपः नागपकविनागकेसरिया बीमतः कविप्रभोः पौचः पुचः श्रीरामनाथदेशिकस्य प्रयासमासपिचसमयfeafarfsfeefea: teemaxene : fefenwelfvy: afrafaler: Hafaभहारकभागिनेयः यौडिडिमकविसार्वभौम इति प्रधितविरुदनामा सरस्वतीप्रसादखधकवितासमाषः श्रीमामवणगिरिनाथः । ***
WIST w eufragar I Somavalli-yogananda-prahasana (called Yogananda by Burnell) Palace Library, Tanjore, No. 10,658. salwvabhyudaya, Canto 3.
Ibid, Cantos 8 and 12. Ibid, Canto 5. Ibid, Canto 6.
Ibid, Canto 8.
Ibid, Canto 10. Ibid, Canto 11. Tiuffachu ..... ese afweg Ardm ore garaiefwat qu e cewa
afana179441 Vide MSS. Nos. 9987 and 12369, Tanjore Palace Library (Bhagapala-champ-kavya).
30 Probably Saluva Nrisimba first entertained the maternal ancestor of Rajapatha-kavi as his court läsand. writer, in gratitude for which act be might have written this poem in praise of Siluva Nrisimhs. The following verse (the last one in the Salutábhyudaya-karya) makes it clear that the author did not write it during the reign of the bero:
पाकयं वाचमतिसादरमथितार्था
मम्यईया विरचय वितामनु। অন্যাজনিন্স লীলম
मापर्यतुचरिती मरसिंहराजः।