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3. THE PRAKRIT POETS HARIVRDDHA, SĀTAVĀHANA
AND ADHYARĀJA
1. As a comparative and critical survey of the whole range of subjects and topics coming under. Alamkāra in its broadest sense, Raghavan's study of Bhoja's Sțngāraprakāśa has an incomparable value. But it is equally valuable as a rich storehouse of interesting literary-historical information and of exhumed references and citations relating to lost works and authors of past.
The purpose of the present paper is to supplement the information about a few of the forgotten Prakrit authors, out of a sizeable number discussed by Raghavan.
1. Harivrddha
2. On the basis of a quotation in Bhoja's Sarasvatikanthābharana, Raghavan has drawn our attention to a Prakrit poet named Harivěddha,' who, though possibly quite important, has been so far practically unknown to us.
To illustrate the Doșa-guņa called Gūļhārtha, Bhoja quotes anonymously a Prakrit vrese, 2 wherein a modest poet says : 'There are poets and poets. The same term Kavi applies to nobodies like us as also to big poetic geniuses like Harivěddha and Sāli, just as the term hari applies to mere frogs and monkeys as also to fierce serpents and lions'. Here the names of Harivěddha and Sāli stand for eminence in the field of Prakrit poetry. There is slight uncertainty about the text of the verse, but the commentator Ratneśvara takes Harivrddha as one name and not as two (i.e. Hari and Vĩddha), and Raghavan is rightly inclined to the same view. We many also note that the commentator characterizes Harivrddha and sāli as poets of uncommon genius-lokottara-pratibhāśālinah. Moreover, Raghavan has suggested that sāli here may be the same as the famous poet Sällvāhana or Hāla.3
