Gyanpramodika

Author(s): Gyanpramod Gani, R S Betai, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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This inspires Kane to believe that the sutra work of Sauddhodani is included in the B75*1 2 of Keśava Misra. 15 De is not so very much specific on the point. Kane concedes -
"Whether she is the name of an author or whether the fs were composed by some Buddhist writer and were subsequently ascribed to stafa (a name of wata ga) cannot be determined."16
He however, places this sütra writer in the beginning of the 12th century when he states :
"The f s of plats fa appear to have been composed after the 11th century. He defined Kāvya as a sentence containing rasas etc. and says that rasa is the soul of poetry. On p. 83 शोद्धोदनि refers to महिमभट्ट the author of व्यक्तिविवेक and his treatment bears close resemblance to वाग्भटालङ्कार."
Actually Keśava Mišra in his Vrtti has close resemblance with Mammaja, Hemacandra and partially with Amaracandrayati, and only in Rasa treatment he resemables Vāgbhata. If we accept the view of Kane that Sauddhodani belongs to the beginning of the 12th century, it is very much likely that he is a little earlier than Vagbhata and he might be in the know of the 343 a work of Saudbodani. Our contentions therefore in this question of the relation between Sauddhodani and Vāgbbata are as follows: (1) The work of Sauddhodaoi, in all probability belongs to the first part of the
12th century and it is lost; it is likely that much of it, if not the whole, is included in the work of Keśava Misra.
(2) Vāgbhata is partially inspired, atleast in his treatment of Rasa by Śauddhoda ni,
though he does not acknowledge. (3) The lost work has very considerably helped 'Alankara śokhara' and the author
acknowledges his debt in all respect, (4) Sauddhodani and Vägbhata are very much near in point of time and so, it is
also likely that the common Karikas of Sauddhodani and Vägbhata in the treatment of Rasa might be due to some common source of Sauddhodani and Vägbhața.
It should, however, be added that Keśava Misra takes a few Kärikar from Vāgbhata and quotes them at places other than the Kārikās. To illustrate : 4,76 from Vagbhata is found on page 37 of Alankarasekhara; 5.1 of Vägbhata is quoted on p. 69,
15. Vide, History of Sanskrit Puetics,' p. 441. 16. "
p. 316.