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Prakrit and Apabhraíba Studies
The commentator Gopāla on VS. II. 8, identifies Bhujagādhipa as two persons called Kambala and Asvatara and Satavāhana as a king, Regarding VỊddhakavi, he says that according to some he was the same as Harivșddha. If we accept this last identification, then it follows that Harivěddha, also known as Vrddhakavi, was, along with the two Bhujagādhipas and Sātavāhana, a recognized authority on Prakrit metrics and especially on its section on the Dvipadi. In this connection we may attach some significance to the fact that as Harivrddha and Sāli figure together in the SK. I. 99 illustration, so also Sātavāhana and VỊddhakavi figure together in VS. II. 8 and 9.
5. We may also mention here in passing that the expression Tuddhakai-mirūviam from VS. II. 8 is anonymously quoted by Hemacandra, in the form Viddhakai-nirūviam under Siddhahema, 8-2-40 as a counter-instance of -ddh- changing into -ddh-. That the example is in fact drawn from the VS. is shown beyond doubt by the fact that the whole of the first part of Vs. I. 13 (iarāim jāna lahu-akkharā ir pāort imella-sahiāna) is reproduced under Siddhahema. Vill. iii. 134 (with the variant pāyaṁtimilla for pāyantimella) to illustrate the use of a genitive form for the ablative. Hemacandra's using of Virahānka's metrical manual to obtain illustrative matter for his grammar implies a good measure of respectability and traditional authority for the latter. And the same conclusion is to be drawn from Virahānka's acknowledgement that Vrddhakavi was one of his sources and authorities.
6. We come across one more reference to Harivěddha in Rajasekhara's Karpūramañjari. In the first Javanikā of the Karpūramañjari during the squabble with the maid Vicakşaņā, the Vidūsaka reacts angrily to the King's praise of the former and says, "Then why don't you say straightway : this our servant-girl is a poet surpassing even Harivụddha, Nandivệddha, Poțfisa, Hāla and such others ?7'--tā ujjuaril jeva kin na bhaniadi amhāņaṁ cediā Jlariuddha-Namdiuddha-Pottisa-Hälapaludiņam pi purado sukgi tti ? Here Hariyrddha figures is one of the famous and foremost
