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gation faqanoatiafia fazefa fafneyon: 1'
The editors modestly put the date of GC subsequent to A.D. 650, i.e., after Bana. This edition was reviewed by E. Hultzsch in IA, XXXII, P. 240.
In 1903 T. S. Kuppuswami Sastri brought out the first edition of KC; as noted by Hultzsch, however, some opening portion of it was published from Bangalore in a magazine. It has been all along presumed that the author Vadibhasimha is the same as the author of G. In the Introduction it is pointed out how KC and GC have common ideas and that the story of GC and JCi is based on Gugabhadra's Purana. Vadibhasimha is assigned to 10th-11th century A.D., some time after Gunabhadra (1st half of the 10th century A.D.) who had a pupil in Mandalapurusa, the author of the Tamil lexicon Cuḍāmaņi. The editor assigns JCi to an age between 9th and 12th century A.D., i.e., later than Gunabhadra and earlier than Sekkilar (contemporary of Kulottunga Chola 1070-1118 A.D.) who refers to it in his Periyapurana. And further he assign Naccinarkiniyār to c. 1400 A.D., because he quotes from Kapardi, the father of the famous Sanskrit commentator Mallinatha. With remarkable insight he pointed the indebtedness of KC and GC to earlier works like the Raghuvamsa and Kadambari of Kalidasa and Bāņa respectively. On the style of KC he observes thus:
angîíãèn afen avîtàsftucaeqe140iì faceniafayan amfaqalsafàfèraizì विषयः, अनुष्टुपूच्छन्दोबद्धाः श्लोकाः, विवक्षितार्थाभिधायिन्यसमासबहुलानि समुचितानि पदानि, हृदयग्राहिणः सुग्रहा दृष्टान्ताः, अनेका लोकोक्तयः, मितोक्त्या पुष्कलार्थस्य प्रकटनम्, यथासंभवं प्राचां कवीनां काव्येभ्योऽप्यर्थानुहरणम्, इति विशेषयुक्ता विलसन्ति गुणाः ।
The most important feature of this edition is that in the foot-notes, besides some explanatory notes, the learned editor has quoted parallels from Sanskrit and Tamil works like GC, CJ, JCi, Raghuvamsa, Pañcatantra, Kumarasambhava, Kadambari, Uttarapuraņa, Satakas of Bhartr hari, Meghaduta, Sakuntala etc. This edition thus brought out the fact that Vadibhasimha inherited the spirit of Sanskrit scholarship in its wider meaning and that all the Sanskrit works dealing with the life of Jivandhara required a comparative study from the textual and chronological points of view. Hultzsch reviewed this edition in IA, XXXV, p. 96, and it was suitably welcomed by Schmidt, Hertel and others.
In the year 1905, T. S. Kuppuswami Sastri brought out an edition of CJ of Haricandra in SS No. IV. (It appears to have been printed
