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आ. शांतिसागरजी जन्मशताब्दि स्मृतिग्रंथ Vardhamāna (A. D. 1141 ) quotes DS (of Dhanañjaya ) 4.6.,9.51., 18.22, in his Ganaratna-mahodadhi 435, 409 and 97 of Eggeling's edition.
__Bhoja (middle of the 11th century A. D.), while discussing the Ubhayālankāra, gives the valuable information that Dandin wrote a Dvisandhāna-prabandha on the storties of the Rāmāyama and Bhārata.li Cf.,
तृतीयस्य यथा दण्डिनो धनञ्जयस्य वा द्विसन्धानप्रबन्धौ रामायणमहाभारतार्थावनुबध्नाति (?) For our purpose what is significant is that Bhoja mentions Dhanañjaya and his DS along with Dandin and his DS-Prabhandha.
Prabhācandra ( 11th century A. D.) refers in his Prameyakamalamārtanda to the DS thus :15
ननु व्याकरणाद्यभ्यासाल्लौकिकपदवाक्यार्थप्रतिपत्तौ तदविशिष्टवैदिकपदवाक्यार्थप्रतिपत्तिरपि प्रसिद्धरश्रुतकाव्यादिवत् । तन्न वेदार्थप्रतिपत्तावतीन्द्रियार्थदर्शिना किञ्चित्प्रयोजनमित्यप्यसारम् । लौकिकवैदिकपदानामकत्वेऽप्यनेकार्थत्वव्यवस्थितेरन्यपरिहारेण व्याचिख्यासितार्थस्य नियमयितुमशक्तेः । न च प्रकरणादिभ्यस्तन्नियमस्तेषामप्यनेकप्रवृत्तेर्द्विसन्धानादिवत् ।
Vadiraja, in his Parávanāthacarita, 16 composed in A. D. 1025, refers to Dhanañjaya and his skill in more than one sandhäna :
अनेकभेदसन्धानाः खनन्तो हृदये मुहुः ।
बाणा धनञ्जयोन्मुक्ताः कर्णस्येव प्रिया कथम् ॥ १.२६ ॥ Durgasimha (c. 1025 A. D.), the author of the Kannada Panicatantra,17 refers to the RP of Dhananjaya in these words:
अनुपमकविव्रजं जीयेने राघवपांडवीयमं पेळूदु यशो
वनिताधीश्वरनादं धनञ्जयं वाग्वधूपियं केवळने ॥७॥ Dr. B.S. Kulkarni, Dharwar, informs me that the palm-leaf manuscript of the Panicatantra from Arrah does not contain all those verses referring to the earlier poets.
Scholars are divided in their opinions whether there was only one Nāgavarmā or there were two at different times (A. D. c. 1090 and c. 1145), with some or the other works assigned to them. We get the following verse in his Chandombudhi,18 a work in Kannada on metrics :
14. V. Raghavan, Bhoja's Srigāraprakāsa, (Madras, 1963), p. 406. 15 Ed., N. S. Press, (Bombay, 1912), p. 116, lines 1 ff.; Bombay 1941, p.402. 16. Ed. Māņikachandra D. J., Granthamātā, No. 4, Bombay, 1926. 17. Mysore, 1898. 18. R. Narasimhacharya, Karnataka Kavicarite, (Bangalore, 1961), pp. 53 ff.,
154 ff.
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