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MAY, 1904.)
RAMABHADRA DIKSHITA AND THE SOUTHERN POETS.
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रतितन्त्रदेशिकानां रतिपतिनिगमान्तवावदूकानाम् ।
वैदग्भ्यभूषणानामेषा परिषत्समागता विदुषाम् ॥ तस्केनापि रूपकेण सभामिमामाराध्य सफलयिष्यामो वयं कुलक्रमागतं प्रयोगविद्यावे
शद्यम् ॥ (16) P. 170, Maratahavalliparinaya, a ndtaka in 5 ankas, by Srinivasadasa, son of Devarajkrye of the Bharadvaja family. As far as I can make out the passage, he is of the same family as a Madhava who wrote commentaries "on the Upanishada" for " on the Dramidopanishads." Introduction to the Maratakavallipariņayandtaka :
तदिह द्रमिडोपनिषद्विवरणपरमगुरुमाधवाचार्यवंशमुक्तामणेर्भारद्वाजकुलजलधिकौस्तुभस्य श्रीदेवराजार्यस्य तनयेन श्रीनिवासकविना विरचितेन मरतकवल्लीपरिणयाभिधानेनाभिनवेन नाटकेन भवतः परितोषयामि तदनुगृह्यन्तु ।
(17) P. 170, "Madanabhúshana, a bhana by ? The author is said to have lived at Kilayantr, which must be in the neighbourhood of Madras" for "Madanabhashana, a bhana by Appâdhvarin. The author is said to bave lived at Killayûr in the neighbourhood of Mayuram (Mayavaram, in the Tanjore District)."
In religion, Ramabhadra-Dikshita was a SmArta Brahmans and a votary of Rama. His works, poetical or philosophical, always begin with an invocation to Râma, or have Rama for their subject. In his Sringaratilakabhána, we come across the following sentence, put into the mouth of the Pariparsvika-“कयमस्य रघुवीरचरणारविन्दस्मरणनिरन्तरप्रवणचेतसो भाणनिर्माणेऽपि प्रवृत्तं हवम्"meaning * how is it he (Ramabbadra-Dikshita) whose thoughts are ever bent on meditating on Râma, has undertaken to write a bhana ?" The following verse addressed to Krishņa and believed to have been composed by the author one night in his dream, occurs in his Rämakarnarasáyana and clearly shows his unshaken attachment to R&ms and Rama alone.
मौलौ निधेहि मकुटं त्यज बर्हिबर्ह बाणं गृहाण धनुषा सह मुञ्च वेणुम् । शाखामृगैर्विहर संत्यज गोपबाला
नामो यदूद्वह भव स्वमथाश्रये त्वाम् ।। meaning "Remove the peacock's feathers and wear the crown on thy head : drop the Aate and grasp the bow with arrows; abandon the cowherd boys and associate with monkeys; 0, the brightest of the Yadus, transform thyself into Rama and then will I be attached to thee." The following note is added after the verse in the manuscript-स्वमदृष्टोऽयं श्लोकः-ie, “ the verse which he composed in his dream."
I now turn to Bamabhadra-Dikshita's works. The following is a list of them so far as they are known to me: (1) Janakiparinayandtaka, (2) Sping dratilalabhána, (3) Paribhdshdvrittivyakhyana (4) Shaddarianisiddhantasangraha, (5) Patanjatioharitakarya, (6) Banastava, (7) Chapastara, (8).Tantrastava, (9) Prasadastava, (10) Viivagarbhastava, (11) Ramastavakarnarasdyana, (12) Ash!aprása, and (13) Acharyastaparájabhushana (a review of "Acharyastavarâjs," work by Brahmanandamuni in praise of his preceptor Krishņânandamuni). A critical
