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Sternbach indicates which verses are wrongly attributed to kşemendra (cf. pp. 26-28, para. 22) and which are doubtful (pp. 28-29, para. 23). He concludes that "of the 91 verses quoted in Annex II (read III) only six verses are not Ksemendra's verses, 13 are doubtful Ksemendra's verses and the rest, i.e. 72 verses are probably genuine, otherwise unknown, Kşemendra's verses" (p. 30, para. 25).
In his introduction Sternbach lists Ksemendra's works. He arrives at a total of 39 works of which 20 are no longer extant. It is not entirely clear how this list was established. Since the first discoveries of Kşemendra's works in the eighteen-seventies several lists of his extant and non extant works have been compiled, the first by Sylvain Lévi in 1885, cf. La Brihatkathāmañjari. Extrait du Journal asiatique (1885, II, pp. 397-479; 1886, 1, pp. 178-222], Paris, 1886, p. 3, n. 4. Sylvain Lévi lists 30 works. In Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum (Part I, Leipzig, 1891, p. 135) 35 works are enumerated. Oscar Botto lists 37 works but adds a question mark after Samopadesa quoted ad Suvịttatilaka 3, 16 (Il poeta Ksemendra e il suo Daśâvatâracarite Torino, 1951, pp. 7-8). The edition of the Suvíttatilaka in the Ksemendralaghukāvyasamgraha (Hyderabad, 1961, p. 111) reads samopadeśe mathā (!) mama "In the advice for restraint, as in my (work)" (tr. Süryakānta, p. 200). The same verse is quoted also in the Kavikanthābharana ad 5.1 (Kșemendralaghukāvyasamgraha, p. 79) from Ksemendra's Citrabhāratanataka. In his Ksemendra Studies (Poona, 1954) Süryakānta lists 19 extant works, and 15 works known by name only (7 quoted in the Kavikanthābharana, 6 quoted in the Aucityavicāracarcā, and 1 each in the Suvrttatilaka and the Rājatarangini). In Raghavan's New Catalogus Catalogorum (vol. 5, Madras, 1969, pp. 166-169) 37 works of Ksemendra are listed.
The following works of Ksemendra have been published (the different edition are listed by Sternbach). 1. Aucityavicāracarcā; 2. Kalāvilāsa; 3. Kavikanthābharana; 4. Caturvargasamgraha; 5. Cărucaryā; 6. Darpadalana; 7. Dasavatāracarita; 8. Desopadesa; 9. Narmamālā; 10. Nītikalpataru; 11. Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā; 12. Bịhatkathāmañjari; 13. Bhāratamañjari; 14. Rāmāyaṇamañjari; 15. Vyāsāstaka; 16. Samayamātkā; 17. Suvịttatilaka; 18. Sevyasevakopadeśa. In the Auciryavicaracarcā, the Kavikanthābharaṇa and the Suvșttatilaka, Ksemendra mentions as his own the following non extant works: 1. Amặtataranga; 2. Avasarasära; 3. Kanakajānaki; 4. Citrabaaratanataka; 5. Padyakādambari; 6. Pavanapancasika; 7. Muktāvalī; 8. Munimatamīmāmsā; 9. Lalitaratnamālā; 10. Lāvan yavati;11. Vātsyāyanasūtrasāra; 12. Vinayavallī; 13. Saśivamsa. It is reasonable to admit that the same Ksemendra has written these thirty-one works. Eight other works are mentioned by Sternbach of which five are also listed by Aufrecht (CC) and six by Raghavan (NCC): Kavikarņikā (NCC); Kādambarikathāsamkse pa (NCC); Kşemendraprakāsa (CC); Jimūtavāhanāvadāna (NCC); Dānapārijāta (CC); Nītilatā (CC; NCC); NȚpāvali or Rājā valī (CC; NCC); Lokaprakāsa (CC; NCC). From these eight works the Jimūtavāhanāvadāna must be eliminated. Raghavan refers to Nepal. I, p. 56 and adds "From Bauddhāvadā nakalpalatā". Sternbach remarks that the Jimutavāhanāvadāna is probably an extract from the Avadānakalpalatā. Lévi's Népal is not at my disposal but Bendall has already pointed out that the Jimātavāhanāvadana, the 108th tale of the Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā, was added by Ksemendra's son Somendra (Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1883, p. 43). The Kavikarņikā as mentioned by Ksemendra is verse 2 of the Aucityavicāracarca:
krtvāpi kävyālamkārām kzemendrah kavikarnikām / tatkalankam vivekam ca vidikāya vibudhapriyam // 2.
In his Ksemendra Studies Suryakānta doubts vhether the Kavikarnikā is a separate work (p. 26). It seems indeed probable that Kavikarņkā is another name for the Kavikanthābharana. As to the Kādambarīkathāsamkşepa, Clauson lists a two page manuscript in the India Institute Library (cf. G. L. M. Clauson, 'A Catalogue of the Stein Collection of Sanskrit manuscripts from Kashmir deposited in the Indian Institute Library, Oxford", JRAS, 1912, p. 602). The Ksemendraprakasa is mentioned as a work by Kșemendra in Purusottama's Avatāravādāvali
