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Dhanañjaya And His Dvisandhāna
३०९ learned, as mentioned by Nāgacandra or Abhinava Pampa in his Rāmacandra-caritaPurāņa, 39 in Kannada, also known as Pampa-Rāmāyaṇa ( 1.24-23):
आवां वादिकथात्रयप्रवणदाळ् विद्वज्जनं मॅच्च विद्यावष्टंभमनप्पु परवादिक्षोणिभृत्पक्षमं । देवेन्द्रं कडितंददिंदै कडिदं स्याद्वादविद्यास्त्रदि विद्यश्रुतकीर्ति दिव्यमुनिवोल् विख्यातियं तादिदं ॥२४॥ श्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्यव्रति राघवपांडवीयमं विबुधचमत्कृतियेनिसि गतप्रत्या
गतदिं पेल्दमळकीर्तियं प्रकटिसिदं ॥२५॥ These two verses are quoted in an inscription at Sravana Belgol No. 40 (64), of A. D. 1163.28 This Srutakirti Traividya is mentioned in the Terdāļ inscription of 1123 A. D.
ततु परवादीभपंचाननर सधर्मरु । श्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्यब्रतिपर् षटुतर्ककर्कशरु परवादिप्रतिभाप्रदीपपवनर् जितदोषर् नेगळ्दरखिलभुवनांतरदोळ ॥
King Gonka sent for Māghanandi Saiddhāntika (the preceptor of Nimba Sāmanta) 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 Ācārya of the Rūpanārāyana Basadi of Kolhapur :34
शकवर्षद सासिरदय्वत्तेंटनेय राक्षससंवत्सरद कार्तिकबहुलपंचमि सोमवारदंदु श्रीमूलसंघदेसीयगणपुस्तक गच्छद कोल्लापुरद श्रीरूपनारायणबसदियाचार्यरप्प श्रीश्रुतकीर्तित्रैविद्यदेवर् कालं कर्चि etc. Nāgacandra calls him a vrati and so also the Terdāļ 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 Nagacandra near about A. D. 1100.25 This means that Srutakirti'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 Dhanañjaya and śrutakīrti from the latter's having composed the Rāghavapandaviya. Rightly enough, R. G. Bhandarkar hesitated to accept this identity. But somehow the date proposed for Dhananjaya based on this identity attained currency.
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, Karnataka Kavicarite, vol. I, (Bangalore 1961), pp. 110f.
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