Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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pre-eminent as a sovereign, luminous with its employment of words, delightful and preserving rigidly the traditional rules of letters'. Bhaṭṭāraka, an honorific title, was much in vogue among the earlier Jains and referred to those who abandoned the worldly life. But the work of Haricandra, which, according to Bāna, was like a king among prose compositions', is perhaps irretrievably lost to us and we have no means to ascertain the age when Haricandra lived. There is another Haricandra, Vaidya-Haricandra noted by Peterson. 'He is a physician, who wrote a commentary on Carakasamhita and is mentioned by Maheśvara,35 author of Viśvakosa, among his ancestors. A third Haricandra, the writer of Dharmasarmābhyudaya-Kāvya has been discovered by Peterson. He is the son of Ardradeva and Rādhā. Jacobi, in his article on Magha and Bhāravi, has drawn attention to the remarkable coincidences in language and thought between certain passages of the Dharma-sarmābhyudaya and the Gaüḍavaho and he comes to the conclusion that this Haricandra positively borrowed his ideas from and slavishly copied the style of Vākpati and, therefore, this Haricandra must be younger than Vakpati.... We must, therefore, hold that Haricandra referred to by Vakpati is the same Haricandra as mentioned by Bāna.
Subandhu, referred to by Vākpatirāja is the author of Vasavadattā, a prose composition like Bana's
35. The subhāṣitāvali gives the following verse on his
name:
अव्यापाररता वसन्तसमये ग्रीष्मे व्यवायप्रियाः
सक्ताः प्रावृषि पल्वलाम्भसि नवे कूपोदकद्वेषिणः ।
azraturan: arafayat kurafagiser: स्वैर्दोषैरपचीयमानवपुषो नश्यन्तु ते शत्रवः । No. 2547