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Dhanañjaya And His Dvisandhāna ब्रह्माणं समुपेत्य वेदनिनदव्याजात् तुषाराचलस्थानस्थावरमीश्वरं सुरनदीव्याजात्तथा केशवम् । अप्यम्भोनिधिशायिनं जलनिधिध्वानोपदेशादहो फूत्कुर्वन्ति धनञ्जयस्य च भिया शब्दाः समुत्पीडिताः ॥२०३॥
In some manuscriptsll the following two verses are found added after, perhaps, No. 201, Pramānam etc. :
जाते जगति वाल्मीको शब्द कविरिति स्मृतः । कवी इति ततो व्यासे कवयश्चेति दण्डिनि ॥ कवयः कपयश्चेति बहुत्वं दूरमागतम् ।
विनिवृत्तं चिरादेतत् कलौ जाते धनञ्जये ॥ It is interesting to note that the first verse, with the third pāda slightly different (Vyāse jāte kavi ceti), is attributed to Kālidāsa by Jalhana in his Sūktimuktāvali.19 it could not have been composed by Kalidasa, because it contains a reference to Dandin,
Dhananjaya, as noted above, ranks his poetic abilities with those of Akalanka in Pramāņaśāstra and of Pujyapāda in grammar: a veritable triad of gems, two of them his outstanding predecessors. These verses leave, no doubt, that the author of the DS and of the Nāmamālā is one and the same. It seems quite natural that a poet with a thorough mastery over the ocean of Sanskrit vocabulary could easily compose a dvisandhāna poem.
Dhanañjaya does not give any auto-biographical details. Nemicandra, in his commentary on the DS,13 118-146 states that Dhananjaya was the son of Vasudeva and Sridevi and pupil of Dasaratha.
It is necessary to put together references to Dhananjaya and his works so that some broad limits can be put to his date. Dhananjaya and his works have received sufficient praise; and his poem was so distinguished that he came to be called Dvisandhāna-kavi. The term dvisandhāna seems to be as old as Dandin (c. 7th century A. D.); and Bhoja's observations quoted below clearly indicate that Dandin also, like Dhananjaya, had a Dvisandhāna-prabandha to his credit, though it has not come down to us. Possibly, it was Dandin's third work besides the Kavyādarśa and the Daśakumāracarita.
11. See the paper of Vira Raghavacharya mentioned above. 12. Edn., GOS, No. 82, Baroda, 1938, p. 45.
13. Nemicandra's commentary is included in the Iñānapitha edition which would be published soon.
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