________________ Samudradatta and Nandayanti, which involved their secret marriage, opposition from Samudradatta's father Sagaradatta, her pregnacy, suspicion of her chastity, and the final reunion of the lovers by means of a ring of recognition and by the identification of the constellation under which their child was born.' ("History of Sanskrit Literature', p. 302). AB. (p. 431) and ND. (p; 119-120) (Somesvara is dependent upon ND. for this) clearly state that the plot of PD. was derived form a Kavya work of some earlier poet which figured Samudradatta and Nandayanti as the hero and the heroine. Brahmayasas, however, had made some modifications in the plot of the story to suit delineation of Rasa. The close similarity between the plots of PD., and Nandayanti in most respects is self-evident. Jayakirti and Somatilaka also may have used in all probability the same source, as was used by Brahmayas'as. The differences that we find in some incidents and details between the PD. and Silataramgini versions may be due to changes made in their source by Brahmayasas for dramatic purposes and by Somatilaka to make N. a model sati-story. We know that Subhasila made further changes in Somatilaka's version on which he relied. Two speculative suggestions 1. Alambayana and Lamakayana As observed earlier NRL. twice refrs to a Lamakayananka, (pp. 97, 267), which because of the mention of Nandayanti in the second reference is definitely from PD. From the citation given in ND. (p.94) Raghavan has pointed out that the same incident is mentioned by Sarvananda in his commentary on the Amarakosa which specifies that it is from [21]