Kavi Paramesvara Or Paramessthi

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye

Page 6

38o 13TH ÁLL'ÍNDIA ORIENTAL CONFERNEÇE : PRAKRIT & JAINISM
Kavi Parameśvara's work, as the quotations indicate, was in Sanskrit and in verses. There is one difficulty in accepting this that Gupabhadra has described Kavi Parameśvara'e work as gadyakathā. Possibly it was in prose with some verses here and there, and for convenience Camundarāya might have quoted only the verses.
If not the whole work of Kavi Parameśvara, at least a couple of quotations are available to us. And I do hope, some day, 'like'the "Varāngacarita of Jālila, Kavi Parameśvara's puräna would be discovered...