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bhatta's sons Panditaraja Jagannatha, Bhattoji Dikshita and Anna bhatta who make up for the deficiency of their tea her in literary composition. But some are of opinion that Panditarâja Jagannatha says that Bhattoji Dikshit was a pupil of Krishna He does not, however, clearly say so. His word are: eft cordisata Punt: q : YETETTAITETTA: Here the word
THT betrays the truth. It is asnal to call a pupil his guru's páduka, and since Vireśvara was also his father's papil, Panitarija Jagannatha used the term for Krishna's son, Vireśvara. Moreover, the present writer is of opinion that the fact of Bhattoji Dikshita's naming his son Vireśvara (evidently after his teacher) goes strongly in support of his view.
Vireśvara's name is given as Viivesvara in South Indian manuscripts, but it can be easily asserted that Vireśvara is the correct name for the following reasons. Paņditaraja Jagannatha, who was his pupil, says in his Manoramd-kucha-mardana F atturai atd. Further it has already been pointed out that Bhattoji Dikshita, to show his gratitude to his gurk, named his son after him, and we know fall well that Bhattoji Dikshita's son's name was Vireśrara Dikshita on'y. He seems to have been called Vivesvara in Southern India by mistake. On this point Mr. S. K. Belwallar, who has kindly supplied me with information on certain points, and to whom, therefore, my thanks are due, concurs with me, and says " Visvesvara, to my mind, appears an emendation for which some scrihh or other is alone responsille."
It seems thit Virrevara alone of the two brothers had song. They are Purushottama and Chakrapani. Purushottama does not appear to be an author. At least, I have not met with any one of his works. His brother Chakra på ni write a work Parim ula-khandana in answer to Bhatpji Dikshita's Manorama, in which he also criticised the latter work. He wrote another work cailed Karake ıtativa. Chakrapani refers in diany places to "my Prakriya-pradipa." Bat that work is not now forthcoming.
Chakrapâņi had a son Gopinatha, who bad a son named Rama. This last was the author of Dharmanubandhiblokavyákhydna, in which he says:
श्रीकृष्णं प्रणिपस्य तत्सुतमथो वीरेश्वरं तत्सतं श्रीवित्पुरुषोत्तम तदनुजं श्री चक्रपाणिं ततः। गोपीनाथगुरुं च कृष्णचरितंश्लोकार्थसंदीपनं कुर्वे रामपदाभिधो भवतु तच्छ्राविश्वनाथार्पण ||
IV. Now, as regards the time when they flourished, we have not sufficient evidence, and it is really unfortunate that whenever we wish to deal with the dates of the poets of our land we have to confess tho want of external evidence. In such cases, we have to rely entirely on internal evidence and probability Narasimba in his Govin lärnava says that he composed that work at the orders of Govindachandra, king of Tâydava.
तं शेषामलवंशभूषणमणि गोविंदचंद्र स्वयं
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. In his commontary on Amarakola, Bhipaji Dikshit says that he wrote a work called ManoramAmandans and defended his father against Chakra påpi.
