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ALAMKĀRA CINTĀMAŅI
posed this work for the study of Kāmiráya, well known as Rāya, the son of the famous queen Vitthaladevī who is described śīlavibhū-. şaņā, ii) Then there is the Alamkāra-Cintamani (AC): It is presented here in this volume. There is a Ms. of it in the Oriental Research Institute, Mysore (No.A.67). It was copied by śāntarāja, the son of Padmapandita in 1808. It has an incomplete commentary, just covering four pages. In its opening remark, it praises highly Ajitasena-munīśvara (honoured by Rajadhiraja etc.) who wrote this AC in the Santīśvara temple of Bangavādi. The AC refers to Banga and his territory possibly Barigavāļi (see V.238 and the following prose passage ).
This Kāmirāya, mentioned by Ajitasena in SM as the son of Vitthaladevī, is obviously the same as the Jaina ruler Rāya Banga who ruled over Barigavādi, once under the sway of Kadambas, in South Kanara and for whom Vijayavarņi composed his Sțågārārņava-Candrika (SC) which is lately published by the Bhāratīya Jñānapīçha in the Mānikachandra Granthmāla, No. 59, Delhi 1969. Vijayavarni describes Kāmirāya as the bhāgineya ( sister's son ) of Sri-Pandya-banga and as the son of mahadevi ( great queen) Vitthalāmba (1.16 ). Vijayavarņi, while elucidating different topics in poetics, profusely glorifies Kāmirāya through examples which illustrate the different points.
Now the details, noted above, are sufficient to fix the period of both Vijayavarni and Ajitasena who were contemporaries of Kámirāya of Bangavādi. This Bangavādi was the principality of Banga chieftains of South Kanara. Inscriptional evidence is available for Sri-Pandya-banga-nareśvara ( = Pandyapparasa I, A. D. 1410 ); his sister is Vitthalamba ( = Vithaladevī A. D. 1417 ); and her son is Kāmirāya ( = Kāmirāya-arasa-Banga, A.D. 1461, 1469 and 1474 ). Vijayavarņi refers to Śrī-Víranarasimha-banga (I. 11 ) who seems to have been the predecessor and brother of Pandya Banga. He also puts both the names together in the colophon: Śrī-Vīranarasimha-Kamirāja-Banga-narendra. Either Vîranara. simha is a title or refers to his successor ( perhaps a brother ) of that name for whom an inscription of 1528 A. D. is available. The genealogy of Bariga chiefs is fully worked out by Dr. K. V. Ramesh in the light of the epigraphic records available for them; and the dates put in the brackets above are all taken from his study. See his two works : i) A History of South Kanara, pp. 182-83, 190 91,
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