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Dhananjaya And His Dvisandhāna
learned, as mentioned by Nagacandra or Abhinava Pampa in his Ramacandra-caritaPurāna, 22 in Kannada, also known as Pampa- Rāmāyana ( 1.24-25 ) :
आवां वादिकथात्रयप्रवणदाँ विद्वज्जनं मँच्चै विद्यावष्टंभमनप्पु परवादिक्षोणिभृत्पक्षमं ।
देवेन्द्रं कतिंददिँदै कडिदं स्याद्वादविद्यास्त्रदिं
त्रैविद्यश्रुतकीर्ति दिव्यमुनिवोल् विख्यातियं ताळदिदं ||२४||
श्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्य
ति राघवपांडवयमं विबुधचम
त्कृतियेनिसि गतप्रत्या
तदिं मळकीर्तियं प्रकटिसिदं ॥ २५ ॥
These two verses are quoted in an inscription at Sravana Belgol No. 40 (64), of A. D. 1163. This śrutakirti Traividya is mentioned in the Terdal inscription of 1123 A. D.
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तंतु परवादीभपंचाननर सधर्म्मरु | श्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्यत्रतिपर् षटुतर्ककर्कशरु परवादिप्रतिभाप्रदीपपवनर् जितदोषर् नेगळ्दर खिलभुवनांतरदोळ ॥
King Gonka sent for Maghanandi Saiddhantika (the preceptor of Nimba Samanta) of Kollagiri or Kolhapur, and the latter's colleagues were Kanakanandi Panditadeva and Srutakirti Traividya. In another inscription of A. D. 1135, from Kolhapur, Śrutakirti Traividya is referred to as the Acarya of the Rūpanarayana Basadi of Kolhapur :24
शकवर्षद सासिरदय्वत्तेंटनेय राक्षससंवत्सरद कार्तिकबहुलपंचमि सोमवारदंदु श्रीमूलसंघदेसीयगणपुस्तक गच्छद कोल्लापुरद श्रीरूपनारायणबसदियाचार्यरप्प श्री श्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्यदेवर् कालं कर्चि etc.
Nagacandra calls him a vrati and so also the Terdal inscription; i. e., he was a vratin in 1123, but by 1135 A. D. he had reached the status of an ācārya. Expert opinion puts Nāgacandra near about A. D. 1100.25 This means that Śrutakirti's age ranges from c. 1100 to 1150 A. D., approximately. So far no manuscript of his RP has ·come to light.
K. B. Pathak was the first to postulate the identity of Dhananjaya and Śrutakīrti from the latter's having composed the Raghavapäṇḍaviya. Rightly enough, R. G. Bhandarkar hesitated to accept this identity. But somehow the date proposed for Dhananjaya based on this identity attained currency.
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22. A Ms. is being used, but the text is available in printed form.
23. Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. II, Sravana Belgol Inscriptions.
24. Epigraphia Indica, Vol. 19, p. 30.
25. R. Narasimhacharya, Karnātaka Kavicarite, vol. I, (Bangalore 1961), pp. 110f.
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